200th Anniversary of one of the Best Ever gothic horror writers.

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HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF THE BEST GOTHIC HORROR WRITERS EVER.
Gothic horror fans would have marked the 28th August this year as the 200th anniversary of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, born in Dublin and became the foremost and most sensational gothic horror writer of the Victorian Era.
His best work is undoubtedly Carmilla, a vampire novel to keep you awake and afraid of the dark for many a night. In my opinion creepier and more terrifying in parts than even Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Carmilla isn’t full length fiction, more a novella, but the imagery and shivers remained with me for a long time after reading it. The House by the Churchyard and Uncle Silas are two other of his other books that qualify high in the ranks of the downright scary.
When you read the paragraph below, taken from the beginning of Carmilla, you have every right to expect the very best in gothic horror writing, and you won’t be disappointed.
‘The nearest inhabited village, only three miles westward, that is to say in the direction of General Spieldorf’s schloss,lies a ruined village with its quaint little church, now roofless, in the aisle of which are the moldering tombs of the proud family of Karnstein, now extinct, who once owned the equally desolate chateau, in the thick of the forest, overlooks the silent ruins of the town.’
Most of his work is free on amazon kindle, so to start you off, the link below will get you your free copy of Carmilla. A word of advice though, read it with the light on!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Carmilla-Joseph-Sheridan-Fanu-ebook/dp/B00E0M40SW/ref=sr_1_17?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1409654521&sr=1-17&keywords=le+fanu

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