title: Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
author: J. Sheridan LeFanu
description: <div>Irish author Joseph Thomas Sheridan LeFanu (1814&#8211;73) wrote mystery novels and Gothic tales, and today he is best remembered as the Victorian era's greatest teller of ghost stories. His other Dover books include <I>The Wyvern Mystery</I> and <I>Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu.</I></div>
zlib_text: Elegant Nightmares 
  
  ELEGANT NIGHTMARES 
  THE ENGLISH GHOST STORY 
  FROM LE F ANU TO BLACKWOOD 
  BY JACK SuLLIV AN 
  Ohio University Press 
  Athens, Ohio 
  
  Copyright © 1978 by Jack Sullivan 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  All rights reserved. 
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 
  Sullivan, Jack, 1946-
  Elegant nightmares. 
  Bibliography: p. 
  Includes index. 
  1 .  Ghost stories, English-History and criticism. 
  I. Title. 
  PR830.G45S9 
  823'.0872 
  77-92258 
  ISBN 0-8214-0374-5 
  
  For Barbara 
  
  CONTENTS 
  Chapter 
  Page 
  INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
  1 
  I. 
  ''GREEN TEA'': THE ARCHETYPAL 
  GHOST STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
  11 
  II. 
  BEGINNINGS: SHERIDAN LE F ANU . . . . . . . . . . 
  32 
  III. 
  THE ANTIQUARIAN GHOST STORY: 
  MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
  69 
  IV. 
  GHOST STORIES OF OTHER 
  ANTIQUARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
  91 
  V. 
  THE VISIONARY GHOS