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This was the very first vampire thriller! Pure innocence becomes the target of age-old evil. Virtuous Laura has grown up in a solitary castle and longs for a close friend. Her wish seems granted with the arrival of a beautiful and mysterious stranger named Carmilla. A friendship develops but the...

Award-winning narrator Alison Larkin gives thrilling voice to the elements of lesbian attraction and forbidden and dangerous desires in the story of Carmilla, the Gothic female vampire tale that inspired its more famous masculine counterpart Dracula....

Traumatised by dreams and visions about the unassuming chest under the window in her bedroom, Catherine Lestrange demands it be opened; but what is found inside has the power to change her future as well as her reveal her past....

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A short story can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

When a dreary and isolated country house opens its doors to an uninvited visitor, it admits a shadow that cannot be easily cast out.

Carmilla fue una de las primeras historias de vampiros escritas, precursora de muchas obras de éxito, como es el caso de Drácula de Bram Stoker, quien se basó en muchas características de Sheridan Le Fanu para escribir su obra.

In the gloomy depths of a Styrian castle, young Laura becomes enchanted by Carmilla—a beautiful aristocrat harboring dark secrets. As their intense friendship blossoms into something more dangerous, a wave of mysterious deaths sweeps through the countryside.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin. Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell....

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu nació en Dublin el 28 de agosto de 1814. Sheridan Le Fanu nació en el seno de una familia acomodada....

Green Tea is the story of the Reverend Jennings, who consumes copious amounts of green tea while pursuing his esoteric interests late at night. When something goes wrong, he approaches Dr Hesselius, who sets out the narrative in the form of a series of letters to another physician....

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and was an influential writer in gothic and supernatural fiction of the 19th century. Here are six of his short stories: “The White Cat of Drumgonnial”, “Dickon the Devil”, “The Drunkard's Dream”, and more....

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century....

A comprehensive and varied collection of the best vampire stories from the Victorian era by the greatest Gothic writers of the time....

Another collection of great classic novellas by superb storytellers, including Robert E. Howard, E. T. A. Hoffman, Edith Wharton, Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, F. Marion Crawford and more....

A collection of 45 short stories which threaten to unhinge the listener's mind....

Twenty classic tales featuring doctors, patients, feverish imaginations, sick minds and unwell bodies....

Captain Walshawe, a dissolute rake, marries a wealthy heiress as a means to pay off his gambling debts....

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels....

A selection of ghost stories which make your blood run cold....