The House by the Church-Yard

Sheridan Le Fanu‏

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The House by the Church-Yard - Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the Historical novel. Aside from its own merits, the novel is important as a key source for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the 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.