Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1) Carmilla
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
ix, 141 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmella's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Description
xi, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M.R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling narrative crescendos. This anthology focuses on some of his lesser-known stories, exploring eight thoroughly Gothic tales of murderous families, dark castles, and ghosts whose business with the living remains unfinished.
9) Uncle Silas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
xxxvi, 442 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Silas. Silas has a reputation for gambling debts and past accusations of murder, but now lives as a reformed Christian. Sinister schemes and preternatural events unfold as Silas, his son, and a malevolent governess...
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
There is something alive within the gloomy walls of Carwell Grange and it is not quite human. This spine-chilling, Victorian-era thriller pits bone-chilling fear against hot-blooded passion. As an orphaned child, Alice Maybell was taken in by Squire Fairfields. Now that she has grown into a beautiful young woman, his intentions have turned sinister. When she secretly marries his son, Charles, the Squire's wrath explodes and the desperate couple flee...
Series
Graphic classics volume 14
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Description
144 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
12) Vampyr
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A subtle, disturbing version of the vampire legend. A young man attempts to find and kill a vampire that has assumed the form of an old woman.
13) Vampyr
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (42 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror....
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
xxvi, 313 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Horror Takes Its TimeLooking for a thoughtful fright? Or perhaps a frightful thought? Packed with stories selected by one of today's leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths, inspire forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation in the guise of fiction. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to Satanism, this one-of-a-kind volume includes...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
vii, 614 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A Retrospective Collection of Classic Occult and Supernatural Detective Stories by Some of the Field's Greatest and Best-Known Weird Fiction Authors. Since the gaslit nights at the end of the nineteenth century, the occult detective has been a beloved and recurring archetype. Mixing the best aspects of the detective tale and weird or supernatural fiction, and capitalizing in part on the massive popularity of Sherlock Holmes, these stories portrayed...
