The House by the Churchyard

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

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 wealthy newcomer with a flawless face hides a past tied to an unsolved murder. Le Fanu's 1871 crime novel is one of the first novels to hinge on plastic surgery.

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