Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories

from Finxy

Review from Badelynge In judging the quality of this collection of ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu I think it's worth mentioning that this particular collection was compiled by M.R. James to bring together all of Le Fanu's anonymously published supernatural short stories. It's not a collection ...

from JBD1

A collection (made by M.R. James) of a few J. Sheridan Le Fanu ghost stories, most of these originally published anonymously in the Dublin University Magazine. I liked these, but not as much as I liked Le Fanu's Uncle Silas or James' own ghost stories (in part probably because James' stories so o...

from kaki5231

Probably the progenitor of English ghost stories, J.S> LeFanu produced some superb ghost stories. MR James, who was probably the best English ghost writer ever, considered LeFanu "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories."

from bcquinnsmom

Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Stories contains twelve supernatural tales that might be best be read late at night when the house is quiet. Even Henry James agrees: there's a statement by James on the back cover that reads "There was the customary novel by Mr. Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal re...