Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "Ghostly Tales" is the most extensive collection of the author's works, containing eleven atmospheric tales about the supernatural, such as "Stories of Lough Guir", "Dickon the Devil" or mysterious "The Child that went with the Fairies". |