This edition includes the best ghost stories by the classic of English literature, the Irishman J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), a brilliant master of Victorian “gothic” prose. Here is a collection of popular in England “Tales of Ghosts” (ghost stories), devoted to mysterious, ominous, and supernatural events connected with the beyond. Building on the traditions of the European “gothic” novel, popular British writers of the 19th–20th centuries place their heroes in situations of encounters with the unknown and skillfully draw the listener into an atmosphere of Fear and Mystery.