Overview
""The delight of hell is to do evil to man, and to hasten his eternal ruin."" - Swedenborg Published alongside ""Carmilla"" in the landmark collection In a Glass Darkly (1872), Le Fanu's ""Green Tea"" was first serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round in 1869. Since its first publication, Le Fanu's tale has lost none of its potency. ""Green Tea"" tells of the good natured Reverend Jennings, who writes late at night on arcane topics abetted by a steady supply of green tea. Is he insane or have these nocturnal activities opened an ""interior sight"" that affords a route of entry for an increasingly malignant simian companion? This 150th anniversary edition of ""Green Tea"", with illustrations by Alisdair Wood and an introduction by Matthew Holness, is the definitive celebration of Le Fanu's masterpiece of psychological terror and despair.
Full Product Details
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: The Swan River Press
Imprint: The Swan River Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.118kg
ISBN: 9781783807789
ISBN 10: 1783807784
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 30 June 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""This new edition is a very fine little book indeed, a real collector's item . . . There are excellent illustrations by Alasdair Wood, which capture the grim, disturbing essence of the tale."" -Supernatural Tales ""To paraphrase Little Women, it wouldn't be Christmas without any ghost stories. Specializing in Irish writers of supernatural fiction, Swan River Press has just issued a beautiful keepsake volume of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Green Tea in which an unfortunate cleric finds himself bedeviled by a demonic, red-eyed monkey only he can see. Along with essays by Brian J. Showers and Jim Rockhill, this edition of Le Fanu's Victorian masterpiece comes with a CD of the Wireless Mystery Theatre performing the story."" - Michael Dirda, Washington Post ""The passion, love and care that went into this anniversary edition are evident in every detail . . . Even 150 years after it was published, Green Tea has stood firmly against the test of time as a wonderfully eerie and well-crafted ghost story."" - Ghosts & Scholars"
Author Information
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin on 28 August 1814. Though he worked as a journalist and owned several newspapers, he is now best remembered for his pioneering tales of the psychological and supernatural such as ""Schalken the Painter"", ""Sir Dominick's Bargain"", and ""Carmilla"". His notable novels include The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). Le Fanu's seminal short story collection In a Glass Darkly was published in late 1872, less than a year before his death on 7 February 1873.
