Checkmate

Young heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live with an uncle once suspected of murder, in a decaying house where every kindness hides a threat. Le Fanu's best-known novel and a masterclass in slow Victorian suspense.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Murder, buried secrets and village gossip in Chapelizod, just outside Dublin, in the 1760s. Look for the chapter of the disembodied hand, one of the most famous ghost episodes Le Fanu ever wrote.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Mark Wylder vanishes on the eve of his wedding, and the letters he keeps sending from abroad only deepen the mystery. A tightly plotted Sensation novel that many readers rank next to Uncle Silas.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Alice Maybell, a penniless orphan raised by a rough old squire, marries his son in secret and moves into a house that hides another woman. A Gothic mystery that echoes Jane Eyre with Le Fanu's darker touch.

Sheridan Le Fanu

A young stranger arrives at Marlowe Hall with the face of a man killed in a duel years before, and the baronet who fired the shot cannot sleep. Both volumes of the 1865 novel in one file.

Sheridan Le Fanu