The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

Description

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ( 28 August 1814 ~ 7 February 1873 ) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. He had enormous influence on some of the 20th century’s most important ghost story writers.

He specialised in tone and effect rather than “shock horror” and liked to leave important details unexplained and mysterious. He avoided overt supernatural effects: in most of his major works, the supernatural is strongly implied but a “natural” explanation is also possible. This technique influenced later horror artists, both in print and on film.

The Watcher and Other Weird Stories (1894) is another collection of short old stories, published posthumously.