Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu...was in his own particular vein one of the best story-tellers of the nineteenth century; and the present volume contains a collection of forgotten tales by him, and of tales not previously known to be his.
He stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories. That is my deliberate verdict, after reading all the supernatural tales I have been able to get hold of. Nobody sets the scene better than he, nobody touches in the effective detail more deftly.
Ghost stories and tales of mystery are what this volume contains, and, in order to lure the reader on, I have placed the most striking and sensational of them at the beginning of it. These are also the most recent in date; for, as was natural, Le Fanu made improvements in the proportions and in the conception of his short stories as time went on. If the reader likes Squire Toby's Will and Madam Crowl's Ghost, as I think he must, he will go on to the earlier stories and find in them the same excellent qualities, only slightly overlaid by the mannerisms of the forties and fifties. (Summary by M. R. James from Prologue)
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Gothic Fiction
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Madam Crowl's Ghost | Ben Tucker |
00:29:41 |
Play 02 | Squire Toby's Will | Ben Tucker |
01:06:39 |
Play 03 | Dickon the Devil | Ben Tucker |
00:21:51 |
Play 04 | The Child that Went with the Fairies | Ben Tucker |
00:20:24 |
Play 05 | The White Cat of Drumgunniol | Ben Tucker |
00:25:19 |
Play 06 | Some Strange Disurbances in an Old House in Aungier Street | Ben Tucker |
00:47:50 |
Play 07 | Ghost Stories of Chapelizod | Ben Tucker |
00:58:35 |
Play 08 | Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling | Ben Tucker |
00:29:08 |
Play 09 | Sir Dominick's Bargain: A Legend of Dunoran | Ben Tucker |
00:33:10 |
Play 10 | Ultor de Lacy | Ben Tucker |
00:52:56 |
Play 11 | The Vision of Tom Chuff | Ben Tucker |
00:28:51 |
Play 12 | Stories of Lough Guir | Ben Tucker |
00:23:57 |
Play 13 | Epilogue, Bibliographical and Critical by M. R. James | Ben Tucker |
00:18:49 |