Madam Crowl s Ghost and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

£10.95

Twelve of Le Fanu s shorter short stories - The twelve tales in this collection are mainly ghost stories but there s one fairy tale, three quarters of them take place in Ireland and the rest in England. Two of the titles are actually not single short stories but include several very short stories so it s more like a collection of ten short stories and another eight very short stories. The most terrifying (and therefore my favourites) are the ghost story, An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street and the fairy tale, The Child that went with the Fairies. Both of these are Irish and, for anyone with a properly functioning imagination, very chilling. I enjoyed all the stories to varying degrees. Sheridan Le Fanu was a master of supernatural story telling - very popular in his day - and his work was admired by such well known writers as Henry James and M R James (who edited this collection). For any reader who is able to suspend their disbelief and give free rein to their imagination, there s several nights worth of spine-tingling pleasure in this book. And that s a bargain.

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