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Books: Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Lefanu by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu Click Image For More Info Click HERE for ... Prices (new/used) Availability Additional Images Similar Links More Reviews Additional Information Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x 8.48 x 5.41 Publisher: Dover Pubns; (June 1964) In-Print Editions: Library Binding , Audio Cassette (Abridged) Customers who bought this book also bought: The Three Imposters and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 1 ( Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series) by Arthur Machen, S. T. Joshi (Paperback) Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Everett F. Bleiler (Editor) (Paperback) The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson by Richard Dalby, E. F. Benson (Editor) (Paperback) Ghost Stories and Mysteries by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, et al (Paperback) Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by M. R. James (Editor), Michael Cox (Editor) (Paperback) Review Amazon.com Le Fanu is a Victorian writer who, along with Edgar A. Poe before him, invented the unity of mood and economy of means that characterizes the modern horror short story. Jack Sullivan, in Horror Literature, maintains that "Le Fanu was more revolutionary than Poe, for he began the process of dismantling the Gothic props and placing the supernatural tale in everyday settings." These quietly elegant tales include a female vampire who predates Dracula, a vicar troubled by a spectral monkey, a cruel hanging judge who gets his due and many other fine portents and hauntings. More Reviews