{"product_id":"the-house-by-the-churchyard-joseph-sheridan-le-fanu-9781605203423","title":"The House by the Churchyard","description":"The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814-1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosphere tinged by the supernatural and bolstered by hints of ambiguous magic. Though his best-known works were horror tales, Le Fanu's first novels were historical in nature. The House by the Churchyard, originally published in 1863, bridges the author's early work and his later experiments in Gothic horror, and is said to have inspired James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A rambling tale of the charming Irish town of Chapelizod in 1767, it sees men of the Royal Irish Artillery stationed in the village and disrupting the quiet life there... though the brooding Mr. Mervyn and his coffin and the mysterious newcomer Mr. Dangerfield lend elements of the unknown as well. With a series of new editions of Le Fanu's works, Cosimo is proud to reintroduce modern book lovers to the writings of the early master of suspense fiction who pioneered the concept of \"psychological horror.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,J. Sheridan Le Fanu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1605203424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781605203423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cosimo Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.25d","brand":"Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47637264630015,"sku":"9781605203423","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9648964-c84f-4f8f-afd0-3698d1a1e859.jpg?v=1765115059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-house-by-the-churchyard-joseph-sheridan-le-fanu-9781605203423","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}