Uncle Silas by J.Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Classics, Literary

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Overview

Addicted to laudanum and prey to inexplicable visions, Silas appears like a spirit to his neice Maud. Silas has his own plans for Maud and the fortune she will inherit. Uncle Silas is LeFanu's best-known novel, dealing with themes of spiritualism, secret corruption, greed, lust, and other peculiar Victorian obsessions. A classic novel of spiritual terror by opne of the true masters of the form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587158865
Publisher:	Borgo Press
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	917,731
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.43(d)

About the Author

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.