Uncle Silas
a tale of Bartram-Haugh
About this book
One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menacedby unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
Subjects
- england, fiction
- english literature
- fiction
- fiction, horror
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, suspense
- fiction, thrillers
- fiction, thrillers, general
- fiction, thrillers, suspense
- gothic fiction (literary genre)
- governesses
- governesses -- fiction
- large type books
- literature and fiction, mystery and suspense
- long now manual for civilization
- murderers
- murderers -- fiction
- orphans
- orphans -- fiction
- psychological fiction
- uncles
- uncles -- fiction