Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton : A Dying Confession, an Old Woman's Ghost, and a Sexton's Guilty Secret

A servant girl's account of her mistress's final days becomes something far stranger once the old woman herself refuses to stay buried, while, in a linked tale, a churchyard sexton learns that some crimes leave a debt that outlives the grave entirely.

Two of Sheridan Le Fanu's most chilling shorter pieces paired together — one a deathbed haunting, the other a quiet, merciless reckoning. Both share his gift for making ordinary rural settings feel like the thinnest possible barrier between the living and whatever refuses to stay dead.

Om denne bog

A servant girl's account of her mistress's final days becomes something far stranger once the old woman herself refuses to stay buried, while, in a linked tale, a churchyard sexton learns that some crimes leave a debt that outlives the grave entirely.

Two of Sheridan Le Fanu's most chilling shorter pieces paired together — one a deathbed haunting, the other a quiet, merciless reckoning. Both share his gift for making ordinary rural settings feel like the thinnest possible barrier between the living and whatever refuses to stay dead.

Kom i gang med denne bog i dag for 0 kr.

  • Få fuld adgang til alle bøger i appen i prøveperioden
  • Ingen forpligtelser, opsiges når som helst
Prøv gratis nu
Mere end 52.000 mennesker har givet Nextory fem stjerner i App Store og Google Play.

  1. Ny
    4.0

    Classic Weird Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and the Supernatural, Vol 6 : The Haunter of the Dark, The Willows, Carmilla

    H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  2. 5.0

    The Power of Darkness : The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Haunted House, Dead Souls…

    Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adelbert von Chamisso, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Fanu, John Buchan, Louis Tracy, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade Falkner, Guy De Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Daniel Defoe, John Kendrick Bangs, Cleveland Moffett, Brander Matthews, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Horace Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, Hugh Walpole, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Leonid Andreyev, David Lindsay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Edward Bellamy, Walter Hubbell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Leopold Kompert, Richard Marsh, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, John William Polidori, Vincent O'Sullivan, H.G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, M.P. Shiel, E F Benson, Jerome K Jerome, M. R. James, E. T. Hoffmann, Stanley G. Weinbaum, George W. Reynolds, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edith Nesbit, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Thomas Beckford, Francis Marion Crawford, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mary E. Freeman, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Frank R. Stockton, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Ann Radcliffe, Louisa M. Alcott, Amelia B. Edwards, Leonard Kip, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Fitz-James O’Brien, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, H. H. (Saki), Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, Villiers de Adam, William F. Harvey, Fiona Macleod, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando

  3. 3.1

    Carmilla

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  4. The Rise of Deathwatch (Annotated) : Enriched Edition. A Journey Through Gothic Horror: Explore 19th Century Dark Romance and Haunting Victorian Mysteries

    Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Thomas love Peacock, Edgar Allan Poe, John William Polidori, Washington Irving, Charles Robert Maturin, James Hogg, Victor Hugo, Frederick Marryat, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Guy De Maupassant, Anna Katharine Green, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Machen, George MacDonald, John Meade Falkner, H.G. Wells, Richard Marsh, Henry James, Bram Stoker, W. W. Jacobs, Robert Hugh Benson, Gaston Leroux, Théophile Gautier, William Hope Hodgson, Grant Allen

  5. Ny

    Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling : A Disgraced Officer, a Contested Inheritance, and a Ghost With a Score to Settle

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  6. Ny

    Ultor De Lacy, A Legend of Cappercullen : An Old Irish Family, a Broken Vow, and a Hound That Howls for the Dead

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  7. Ny

    An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House : A True Account (Or So It Claims) of a Home No Family Could Keep

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  8. Ny

    An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street : A Dublin Townhouse, an Unexplained Terror, and the Night Nobody Could Rest

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  9. Ny

    Schalken the Painter : An Apprentice's Masterpiece, a Vanished Bride, and a Suitor Who Should Be Dead

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  10. Ny

    The Child That Went With The Fairies : A Vanished Child, a Fairy Rade, and a Mother Who Never Stopped Waiting

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  11. Ny

    Laura Silver Bell : A Cursed Girl, a Silver Bell, and a Wolf That Won't Stop Watching

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu

  12. Ny

    The Haunted Baronet : An Inherited Curse, a Haunted Estate, and a Baronet Who Can't Escape His Family's Sins

    Joseph Sheridan Fanu