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Title: J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Release Date: March 24, 2004 [eBook #11699]
Language: English
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J. S. LE FANU'S GHOSTLY TALES, VOLUME 1
Schalken the Painter (1851)
and
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1853)
by
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Schalken the Painter
_"For he is not a man as I am that we should come together; neither is there any that might lay his hand upon us both. Let him, therefore, take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me."_
There exists, at this moment, in good preservation a remarkable work of Schalken's. The curious management of its lights constitutes, as usual in his pieces, the chief apparent merit of the picture. I say apparent, for in its subject, and not in its handling, however exquisite, consists its real value. The pict
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu