The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

A lonely girl in a Styrian castle takes in a beautiful, mysterious guest, and grows weaker as their friendship deepens. Our own Project Aldus edition of the 1872 novella that created the female vampire, twenty-five years before Dracula.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Five cases from the papers of Dr. Martin Hesselius, one of the first occult detectives in fiction, including Green Tea, Mr. Justice Harbottle and Carmilla. If you only read one Le Fanu collection, make it this one.

Sheridan Le Fanu

A quiet clergyman starts seeing a small black monkey that no one else can see, and it will not leave him alone. Paired here with Mr. Justice Harbottle, the tale of a cruel hanging judge whose victims come back to try him.

Sheridan Le Fanu

A rich young Englishman in 1815 France falls for a masked countess and agrees to meet her at a sinister inn. Le Fanu's novella keeps you one step ahead of its hero, which makes the trap even harder to watch.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Two short ghost stories in 43 pages. In the first, a young servant girl learns why one room in old Madam Crowl's house stays locked; in the second, a village sexton's death sets something loose on a stormy night.

Sheridan Le Fanu