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You will love this book if you enjoy fireside ghost stories, haunted houses, and murder mysteries with a supernatural edge, told by Victorian voices on a stormy night.
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What would you do if a hand you do not know pushed open your bedroom door at night? A lawyer's agent sleeping alone in a shuttered Lancashire hall faces just that. It is the first of eleven ghost stories in A Stable for Nightmares.
The book is credited to J. Sheridan Le Fanu, the Irish master of the ghost story, and Sir Charles Young. Each Victorian tale starts with an ordinary person in an ordinary place, such as an inn, a railway carriage or a boarding house. Then something from beyond the grave steps in. Here you get the heart of every tale, told up to the edge of its ending. The ghosts in these pages want something, such as a crime named, a will found or a debt paid.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A hand at the door in Barwyke HallFree
- 2A dead aunt sets Reginald a task
- 3A dream shows a murder before it happens
- 4A vision and a ghost demand proof
- 5A lover in Lyons promises to return
- 6A phantom drinker and a whispering voice
- 7Three tales of trance, experiment and the unseen
- 8The dead return to settle unfinished business
- 9Reason and fear pull against each other
- 10Each teller is the doorway for the ghost
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A hand at the door in Barwyke Hall
The book opens with Dickon the Devil, told by a lawyer sent to divide an estate in Lancashire between two elderly sisters. He reaches the black-and-white Elizabethan house of Barwyke Hall at sunset. The shuttered windows, the grassy courtyard and the cold lake with its two leaning ash trees set the mood at once.
The cheerful old bailiff, Tom Wyndsour, shows him to his rooms. On an evening walk they pass the grave of old Squire Bowes. Then a wild white figure runs past them in the dusk, laughing in fear. Tom calls him Dickon the devil and would sooner let sleeping dogs lie, but the visitor presses him.
That night the lawyer hears boxes thrown to the floor and sees candlelight on the opposite wall. Then a thick hand with a short, crooked finger pushes the door open and withdraws when he calls out. Next day Tom's red nose turns pale, for he knows whose hand it is. A grudge over land can outlast the grave.
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What is A Stable for Nightmares about?
It is a collection of eleven ghost and supernatural tales. Ghosts return to demand justice, a murder is dreamed before it happens, a voice leads a man to a crime, and a creature cannot be seen, each in a different place.
How many stories are in A Stable for Nightmares?
There are eleven. They are Dickon the Devil, A Debt of Honor, Devereux's Dream, Catherine's Quest, Haunted, Pichon and Sons, The Phantom Fourth, The Spirit's Whisper, Doctor Feversham's Story, The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts and What Was It?
Who was J. Sheridan Le Fanu?
He was a nineteenth-century Irish writer, who died in 1873, known for ghost stories and gothic novels such as Uncle Silas and Carmilla. The book is credited to him and to Sir Charles Young.
Is A Stable for Nightmares easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that each tale stands alone and has a clear plot, a simple setting and a storyteller who speaks plainly. You can read one story in a single sitting and stop wherever you like.
Is A Stable for Nightmares worth reading?
If you enjoy ghost stories, it offers variety, from comic to grim, with strong scenes such as a hand at a door and a dream of a train. Many tales also hold a detective puzzle.
Cite this edition
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, and Charles Young. A Stable for Nightmares. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-stable-for-nightmares.
Le Fanu, J. S., & Young, C. (2026). A stable for nightmares. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-stable-for-nightmares
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, and Charles Young. A Stable for Nightmares. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-stable-for-nightmares.
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