title: Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood
author:  Jack Sullivan 
description: "This is a well-written, highly readable study of the development of the ghost story in England"
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  J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
  
  
  LAURA SILVER BELL
  
  WICKED CAPTAIN WALSHAWE, OF WAULING
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER I. Peg O'Neill Pays the Captain's Debts  
    
  CHAPTER II. The Blessed Candle  
    
  CHAPTER III. My Uncle Watson Visits Wauling  
    
  CHAPTER IV. In the Parlour  
    
  CHAPTER V. The Bed-Chamber  
    
  CHAPTER VI. The Extinguisher Is Lifted  
    
  CHAPTER VII. The Visitation Culminates
  
  
  THE CHILD THAT WENT WITH THE FAIRIES
  
  STORIES OF LOUGH GUIR
  
  THE VISION OF TOM CHUFF
  
  DICKON THE DEVIL
  
  
  
  
  
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  # J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
  
  
  ### J.S. Le Fanu
  
  
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  * LAURA SILVER BELL
  
  
  * WICKED CAPTAIN WALSHAWE, OF WAULING
  
  
    * CHAPTER I. Peg O'Neill Pays the Captain's Debts
  
  
  * CHAPTER II. The Blessed Candle
  
  
  * CHAPTER III. My Uncle Watson Visits Wauling
  
  
  * CHAPTER IV. In the Parlour
  
  
  * CHAPTER V. The Bed-Chamber
  
  
  * CHAPT