THE MYSTERIOUS LODGER. Further Strange Disturbances.
Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2026. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. Large octavo. Bound in full black boards lettered and ruled in copper on spine and front panel, front and rear panel with a delicate design of numerous flying bats; black endpapers, head-and tail-bands, copper satin bookmark. One of a limited edition of 350 copies. Dust jacket Illustration by R.B. Russell. 300 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, price corner intact. Fine in Dust Jacket. Item #314634
¶ Collects 17 supernatural tales by Le Fanu, Edited and with a New Introduction by Jim Rockhill. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the masters of Victorian supernatural fiction, and he continues to captivate and chill the reader today. Blending psychological unease with spectral dread, Le Fanu’s tales probe the shadows that lurk just beyond the light of your lamp, where reason falters in the shadows and the uncanny takes hold. Following the publication of SOME STRANGE DISTURBANCES (Tartarus Press, 2025), this companion volume gathers the remainder of Le Fanu’s most celebrated works, including his miniature Gothic novel ‘Spalatro’, and an additional Gothic gem, ‘Borrhomeo the Astrologer’. But Le Fanu was equally effective in shorter fiction, and we are able to present the linked tales in ‘Ghost Stories of Chapelizod’ as well as ‘Stories of Lough Guir’.
By turns eerie, melancholic, and profoundly disturbing, these stories showcase a writer at the height of his imaginative powers. Whether exploring haunted landscapes or troubled minds, Le Fanu draws us inexorably into realms where the past refuses to rest and the unseen presses ever closer to the living.
Contents: ‘Introduction’, ‘The Ghost and the Bone-Setter’, ‘The Drunkard’s Dream’, ‘Spalatro’, ‘The Mysterious Lodger’, ‘Ghost Stories of Chapelizod’, ‘The Village Bully’, ‘The Sexton’s Adventure’, ‘The Spectre Lovers’, ‘Borrhomeo the Astrologer’, ‘The White Cat of Drumgunniol’, ‘Stories of Lough Guir’, ‘Madam Crowl’s Ghost’, ‘The Dead Sexton’, ‘Sir Dominick’s Bargain’, ‘Dickon the Devil’, ‘Laura Silver Bell’, Appendix: An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House’.
Price (CAD): $95.00