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The House by the Churchyard (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural)
Le Fanu, Sheridan
Summary
Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863.
Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863. A skull unearthed in a churchyard show signs of violent blows to the head and, even more disturbingly, the small hole caused by trepanning. One hundred years before, a coffin is buried secretly, "R.D." the only identification on its brass plague. The House by the Churchyard was a major source of inspiration for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
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Highlights
- Easy to enjoy: 560 pages · Paperback
- By Le Fanu, Sheridan
Details
- ISBN: 9781840225747
- Author: Le Fanu, Sheridan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560
- Language: English
- Publication date: 5 August 2007
- Condition: New
About the authors
Le Fanu, Sheridan and Sheridan Le Fanu · Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Reviews
Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s, the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral.
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