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Showing posts with label Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Show all posts

Scraps of Hibernian Ballads / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being an Eighth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P. P. of Drumcoolagh. - I have observed, my dear friend, amon...

The Murdered Cousin / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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"And they lay wait for their own blood: they lurk privily for     their own lives.     "So are the ways of every one that ...

Billy Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Let the reader fancy a soft summer evening, the fresh dews falling on bush and flower. The sun has just gone down, and the thrilling vespe...

'The Quare Gander' / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being a Twelfth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. - As I rode at a slow walk, one soft autumn ...

An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, A Royalist Captain / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being an Eleventh Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. - The following brief narrative contai...

A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being a Tenth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. - INTRODUCTION. In the following narrative...

Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being a Ninth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. - Jim Sulivan was a dacent, honest boy as ...

The Bridal of Carrigvarah / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being a Sixth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P. P. of Drumcoolagh. - In a sequestered district of the county...

Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being a Fifth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. - The following paper is written in a fema...

The Last Heir of Castle Connor / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being a third Extract from the legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P. P. of Drumcoolagh. There is something in the decay of ancient gr...

The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Being a second Extract from the Papers of the late Father Purcell.      'The earth hath bubbles as the water hath--        And t...

Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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CHAPTER I Peg O'Neill Pays the Captain's Debts A very odd thing happened to my uncle, Mr. Watson, of Haddlestone; and to e...

The Vision of Tom Chuff / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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At the edge of melancholy Catstean Moor, in the north of England, with half-a-dozen ancient poplar-trees with rugged and hoary stems aroun...

Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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CHAPTER I The Jacobite's Legacy In my youth I heard a great many Irish family traditions, more or less of a supernatural chara...

Stories of Lough Guir / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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When the present writer was a boy of twelve or thirteen, he first made the acquaintance of Miss Anne Baily, of Lough Guir, in the county o...

Schalken the Painter / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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"For he is not a man as I am that      we should come together; neither is      there any that might lay his hand      upon us ...

Madam Crowl's Ghost / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Twenty years have passed since you last saw Mrs. Jolliffe's tall slim figure. She is now past seventy, and can't have many mile-st...

Laura Silver Bell / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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In the five Northumbrian counties you will scarcely find so bleak, ugly, and yet, in a savage way, so picturesque a moor as Dardale Moss. ...

Ghost Stories of Chapelizod / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Take my word for it, there is no such thing as an ancient village, especially if it has seen better days, unillustrated by its legends of ...

The Ghost and the Bone-Setter / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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In looking over the papers of my late valued and respected friend, Francis Purcell, who for nearly fifty years discharged the arduous duti...