Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - THE SCREAM - 60 Horror Tales in One Edition

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Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
Table of Contents:
Novels & Novellas:
Uncle Silas
The Cock and Anchor
The House by the Church-Yard
Wylder's Hand
Guy Deverell
The Tenants of Malory
Haunted Lives
The Wyvern Mystery
Checkmate
Willing to Die
The Haunted Baronet
Spalatro
Short Story Collections:
In a Glass Darkly:
Green Tea
The Familiar
Mr Justice Harbottle
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Carmilla
The Purcell Papers:
The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
The Last Heir of Castle Connor
The Drunkard's Dream
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
The Bridal of Carrigvarah
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
Scraps of Hibernian Ballads
Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald
The Quare Gander
Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
Other Tales:
Madam Crowl's Ghost
Squire Toby's Will
Dickon the Devil
The Child That Went with the Fairies
The White Cat of Drumgunniol
An Account of Some Strange Distrubances in Aungier Street
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling
Sir Dominick's Bargain
Ultor de Lacy
The Vision of Tom Chuff
Stories of Lough Guir
The Evil Guest
The Watcher
Laura Silver Bell
The Murdered Cousin
The Mysterious Lodger
An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
The Dead Sexton
A Debt of Honor
Devereux's Dream
Catherine's Quest
Haunted
Pichon and Sons
The Phantom Fourth
The Spirit's Whisper
Dr. Feversham's Story…

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Chapter 26. Relating How the Band of the Royal Irish Artillery Played, And, While the Music was Going On, How Variously Different People Were Moved

Chapter 27. Concerning the Troubles and the Shapes that Began to Gather About Doctor Sturk

Chapter 28. In which Mr. Irons Recounts Some Old Recollections About the Pied Horse and the Flower De Luce

Chapter 29. Showing How Poor Mrs. Macnamara was Troubled and Haunted Too, and Opening a Budget of Gossip

Chapter 30. Concerning a Certain Woman in Black

Chapter 31. Being a Short History of the Great Battle of Belmont that Lasted for So Many Days, Wherein the Belligerents Showed So Much Constancy and Valour, and Sometimes One Side and Sometimes T’other was Victorious

Chapter 32. Narrating How Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and How They Sang and Discoursed Together

Chapter 33. In which Captain Devereux’s Fiddle Plays a Prelude to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away.’

Chapter 34. In which Lilias Hears a Stave of an Old Song and There is a Leave-Taking Beside the River

Chapter 35. In which Aunt Becky and Doctor Toole, in Full Blow, with Dominick, the Footman, Behind Them, Visit Miss Lily at the Elms

Chapter 36. Narrating How Miss Lilias Visited Belmont, and Saw a Strange Cocked-Hat in the Shadow by the Window

Chapter 37. Showing How Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed Fiercer, and Others Were Solemnly Condoned

Chapter 38. Dreams and Troubles, and a Dark Look-Out

Chapter 39. Telling How Lilias Walsingham Found Two Ladies Awaiting Her Arrival at the Elms

Chapter 40. Of a Messenger from Chapelizod Vault who Waited in the Tyled House for Mr. Mervyn

Chapter 41. In which the Rector Comes Home, and Lily Speaks Her Mind, and Time Glides On, and Aunt Rebecca Calls at the Elms

Chapter 42. In which Dr. Sturk Tries this Way and that for a Reprieve on the Eve of Execution

Chapter 43. Showing How Charles Nutter’s Blow Descended, and what Part the Silver Spectacles Bore in the Crisis

Chapter 44. Relating How, in the Watches of the Night, a Vision Came to Sturk, and His Eyes Were Opened

Chapter 45. Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe’s, Lodging, and a Certain Confidence Between Dr. Sturk and Mr. Dangerfield

Chapter 46. The Closet Scene, with the Part of Polonius Omitted

Chapter 47. In which Pale Hecate Visits the Mills, and Charles Nutter, Esq., Orders Tea

Chapter 48. Swans on the Water

Chapter 49. Swans in the Water

Chapter 50. Treating of Some Confusion, in Consequence, in the Club-Room of the Phoenix and Elsewhere, and of a Hat that was Picked Up

Chapter 51. How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-Box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How that Night was Passed in the House by the Church-Yard

Chapter 52. Concerning a Rouleau of Guineas and the Crack of a Pistol

Chapter 53. Relating After what Fashion Dr. Sturk Came Home

Chapter 54. In which Miss Magnolia Macnamara and Dr. Toole, in Different Scenes, Prove Themselves Good Samaritans; and the Great Doctor Pell Mounts the Stairs of the House by the Church-Yard

Chapter 55. In which Dr. Toole, in Full Costume, Stands Upon the Hearth-Stone of the Club, and Illuminates the Company with His Back To the Fire

Chapter 56. Doctor Walsingham and the Chapelizod Christians Meet to the Sound of the Holy Bell, and a Vampire Sits in the Church

Chapter 57. In which Dr. Toole and Mr. Lowe Make a Visit at the Mills, and Recognise Something Remarkable While There

Chapter 58. In which One of Little Bopeep’s Sheep Comes Home Again, and Various Theories are Entertained Respecting Charles Nutter And Lieutenant Puddock

Chapter 59. Telling How a Coach Drew up at the Elms, and Two Fine Ladies, Dressed for the Ball, Stepped in

Chapter 60. Being a Chapter of Hoops, Feathers, and Brilliants, and Bucks and Fiddlers

Chapter 61. In which the Ghosts of a by-Gone Sin Keep Tryst

Chapter 62. Of a Solemn Resolution which Captain Devereux Registered Among His Household Gods, with a Libation

Chapter 63. In which a Liberty is Taken with Mr. Nutter’s Name, and Mr. Dangerfield Stands at the Altar

Chapter 64. Being a Night Scene, in which Miss Gertrude Chattesworth, Being Adjured by Aunt Becky, Makes Answer

Chapter 65. Relating Some Awful News that Reached the Village, and How Dr. Walsingham Visited Captain Richard Devereux at His Lodgings

Chapter 66. Of a Certain Tempest that Arose and Shook the Captain’s Spoons and Tea-Cups; and How the Wind Suddenly Went Down

Chapter 67. In which a Certain Troubled Spirit Walks

Chapter 68. How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole Makes a Little Excursion; and Two Choice Spirits Discourse, and Hebe Trips in with the Nectar

Chapter 69. Concerning a Second Hurricane that Raged in Captain Devereux’s Drawing-Room, and Relating How Mrs. Irons was Attacked With a Sort of Choking in Her Bed

Chapter 70. In which an Unexpected Visitor is Seen. In the Cedar-Parlour of the Tiled House, and the Story of Mr. Beauclerc and the ‘Flower De Luce’ Begins to Be Unfolded

Chapter 71. In which Mr. Irons’s Narrative Reaches Merton Moor

Chapter 72. In which the Apparition of Mr. Irons is Swallowed in Darkness

Chapter 73. Concerning a Certain Gentleman, with a Black Patch Over His Eye, who Made Some Visits with a Lady, in Chapelizod and its Neighbourhood

Chapter 74. In which Doctor Toole, in His Boots, Visits Mr. Gamble, and Sees an Ugly Client of that Gentleman’s; and Something Crosses an Empty Room

Chapter 75. How a Gentleman Paid a Visit at the Brass Castle, and There Read a Paragraph in an Old Newspaper

Chapter 76. Relating How the Castle was Taken, and How Mistress Moggy Took Heart of Grace

Chapter 77. In which Irish Melody Prevails

Chapter 78. In Which, While the Harmony Continues in Father Roach’s Front Parlour, a Few Discords are Introduced Elsewhere; and Doctor Toole Arrives in the Morning with a Marvellous Budget of News

Chapter 79. Showing How Little Lily’s Life Began to Change into a Retrospect; and How on a Sudden she Began to Feel Better

Chapter 80. In which Two Acquaintances Become, on a Sudden, Marvellously Friendly in the Church-Yard; and Mr. Dangerfield Smokes a Pipe in the Brass Castle, and Resolves that the Dumb Shall Speak

Chapter 81. In which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visitor, and Makes a Call

Chapter 82. IN WHICH MR. PAUL Dangerfield PAYS HIS RESPECTS AND COMPLIMENTS AT BELMONT; WHERE OTHER VISITORS ALSO PRESENT Themselves

Chapter 83. In which the Knight of the Silver Spectacles Makes the Acquaintance of the Sage ‘Black Dillon,’ and Confers with Him in His Retreat

Chapter 84. In which Christiana Goes Over; and Dan Loftus Comes Home

Chapter 85. In which Captain Devereux Hears the News; and Mr. Dangerfield Meets an Old Friend After Dinner

Chapter 86. In which Mr. Paul Dangerfield Mounts the Stairs of the House by the Church-Yard, and Makes Some Arrangements

Chapter 87. In which Two Comrades are Tete-A-Tete in Their Old Quarters, and Doctor Sturk’s Cue is Cut Off, and a Consultation Commences

Chapter 88. In which Mr. Moore the Barber Arrives, and the Medical Gentlemen Lock the Door

Chapter 89. In which a Certain Songster Treats the Company to a Dolorous Ballad Whereby Mr. Irons is Somewhat Moved

Chapter 90. Mr. Paul Dangerfield has Something on His Mind, and Captain Devereux Receives a Message

Chapter 91. Concerning Certain Documents which Reached Mr. Mervyn, and the Witches’ Revels at the Mills

Chapter 92. The Wher-Wolf

Chapter 93. In which Doctor Toole and Dirty Davy Confer in the Blue-Room

Chapter 94. What Doctor Sturk Brought to Mind, and All that Doctor Toole Heard at Mr. Luke Gamble’s

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