560 pages
English language
Published May 7, 2021 by West Margin Press.
Sheridan Le Fanu, Mint Editions: House by the Church-Yard (2021, West Margin Press)
560 pages
English language
Published May 7, 2021 by West Margin Press.
Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863. A skull unearthed in a churchyard show signs of violent blows to the head and, even more disturbingly, the small hole caused by trepanning. One hundred years before, a coffin is buried secretly, "R.D." the only identification on its brass plague. The House by the Churchyard was a major source of inspiration for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.