This is great stuff, fully justifying its place in just about any compilation of Great Ghost Stories you care to mention.Īn Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungiers Street Dublin. The spectre, when it finally puts in an appearance, is one of Le Fanu’s most hideous, spraying worms all over the place and generally making the wait worthwhile. His soul is trapped within a corpse candle until it burns down - which takes half a century. Wicked Captain Walshawe Of Wauling: The atrocious old rake is cursed by Molly Doyle, maidservant to his late wife Peg, after he disrupts the dead woman’s wake in typical fashion. In reality, his fate was even grimmer and the secret is exposed when the mad old horror finally breathes her last. After they were wed his son by his first marriage vanished presumed drowned on account of his hat being found by the lake. In her youth she had been a beauty and caught the eye of the widowed Squire Crowl. Her ladyship, 93, dying and three-quarters demented is a handful and the servants often resort to the leather straitjacket to curb her excesses.
Joliffe relates a terrifying incident from her youth when, as a thirteen year old, she first arrived at Appelwaite House to wait on Lady Arabella Crowl. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.' Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Ghost Stories Of Chapelizod: The Village Bully: The Sexton's Adventure: Spectre Lovers
An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungiers Street
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