TÍTULO ORIGINAL:The House by The Churchyard
AUTOR: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
AÑO: 1863
EDITORIAL: Wordsworth
COLECCIÓN: Mystery & Supernatural
PÁGINAS: 560
FORMATO: Bolsillo
ISBN: 9781840225747
SINOPSIS:
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period's leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M R James as standing 'absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.'"The House by the Churchyard" is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs and change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. Charm and chilling darkness abound in equal measure in one of this greatest novels of a Victorian master of mystery.