FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 117 - Dickon the Devil by Sheridan le Fanu

A tale by the man considered by none other than MR James to be the master of the ghost story - Sheridan le Fanu. In this autumnal story, we discover a rural Lancashire yarn that is more than a legend... 

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 066 - Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand by J Sheridan le Fanu

A haunting tale from a writer that the great MR James himself considered to be the finest ever author of ghostly tales - J Sheridan le Fanu.

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GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS #36 - Dickon the Devil

The end of the summer is upon us, the days are beginning to shorten, and hence it's the perfect time for an autumnal tale of terror. Mr Jim Moon once again invites you to the cosy fireside of the Great Library of Dreams to hear a classic chiller from the man considered by the great MR James to be the best writer of ghost stories, Sheridan Le Fanu. 

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Happy Birthday Sheridan Le Fanu!

Today is the birthday of Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873), an Irish writer of gothic tales, who MR James himself considered to be the master of the ghost story. As well as penning classic gothic novels such as Uncle Silas and The Wyvern Mystery, Le Fanu also wrote the ground-breaking novella Carmilla (1871) which was a huge influence on Dracula, and was adapted by Hammer as The Vampire Lovers (1970) starring Ingrid Pitt (which in turn would spawned the lesbian vampire subgenre).

In his short chiller Green Tea, he introduced us to Dr. Martin Hesselius, widely regarded as the first occult detective. The good doctor would reappear to explore other cases of the weird and the uncanny in the collection In A Glass Darkly (1872).

Many of his spookier stories were written for Christmas editions of Victorian magazines, making him also an influence on Dickens and the tradition of Yuletide ghosts stories, (with a TV version Schalcken the Painter being considered an unofficial member of the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas pantheon).

Now I was set to mark the anniversary of his birth with a reading of one of his fine ghost stories, however it got put back in the schedule by the sad death of George A Romero, and now will be bumped back a further week due to the loss of Tobe Hooper... However rest assured dear readers and listeners, that very soon you will make the acquaintance of Dickon the Devil...