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sketches based

childrens fiction

About half of his fiction output consisted of stories of horror and the supernatural

This edition (complete with all of the original Thomas Fogarty illustrations) of Captain Slocum's story will prove as enjoyable and thrilling to the present generation of Americans as it was to our fathers and grandfathers

Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu sketches basedJoseph Sheridan LeFanu (18141873) is regarded by many critics as the greatest master of the English ghost story. A product of the decaying Anglo Irish culture of the early and middle nineteenth century, he sums up in his work better than any of his contemporaries the fears and dreads that may haunt the sensitive individual. The reasons for his preeminence are many. He was a remarkable craftsman, whose work has been admired by critics as varied as V.

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