Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Set in eighteen century Dublin, “Cock and Anchor” is a story of two lovers, young Edmond O’Connor and miss Mary Ashwoode. Being an unwanted pair for the Ashwoode family, this couple has to contend with the prejudices and outright tyranny of Mary’s father, Sir Richard, and her brother Henry.

The very best of Le Fanu’s supernatural fiction, including such classics as: ‘Schalken the Painter’, ‘Squire Toby's Will’, ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’, ‘The Familiar’, ‘Green Tea’, ‘Madam Crowl’s Ghost’ and ‘The Murdered Cousin’, introduced by genre expert Michael Cox.

The Cock and AnchorBy Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

This new study seeks to explore the relations between reader and text across the span of Sheridan Le Fanu's career, placing his early work of the 1830s in context. Sage concentrates on the development in Le Fanu of hybrid forms, which mingle satire and comedy with Gothic horror, and also discusses the early work of Uncle Silas and Carmilla , giving space to the often neglected unpublished romances.

Ghost and mystery stories.