![]() ![]() ![]() I've listed and summarized all of the stories in this book at my reading journal blog, in case you're interested in what you have to look forward in this book. A few others are memorable as well, particularly the three short tales in "Ghosts of Chapelizod" and the sophisticated use of Irish folklore demonstrated in "The Child Who Went With the Fairies" and "The White Cat of Drumgunniol."Įven in his most inferior stories-which are still very good-Le Fanu shows a talent for choosing the unsettling detail which can produce a genuine thrill. This anthology is slightly inferior to In a Glass Darkly, the collection of later stories Le Fanu published during his lifetime, but the entire book is nevertheless enjoyable and contains two stories ("Madame Crowl's Ghost" and "Squire Toby's Will") that are masterpieces of the form. They were selected primarily from Le Fanu's early "Dublin Magazine" period, when his stories-like those of many of the authors published there by editor Le Fanu-were characterized by a leisurely, folkloric narrative style and the often humorous exploitation of Irish stereotypes. This is a good posthumous anthology of ghost stories, chosen by no less an authority than M.R. ![]()
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