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Uncle Silas
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le FanuNumber Of Reads:
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518
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One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fano was an Irish writer of gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror novels. He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, and was instrumental in the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M's description. R. James Lee Fano described it as "absolutely number one as a ghostwriter".
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