Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, a nineteenth century Irish writer of Gothic tales, ghost stories and mystery novels, is by right considered to be the founder of modern “Gothic” prose. The supernatural creatures in his works do not appear by themselves – the personalities of those who see them often filled with the horrors of the beyond, not less than their ghostly visions. The author of the horrible and mystical, of sinister events, broken lives, crimes and retribution, le Fanu was called by the contemporaries an “Irish Wilkie Collins” and an “Irish Edgar Poe.” This volume includes a short story “Schalken the Painter”, which tells of a painter, his love, best creation and biting irony; and “An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street” - a story of two brothers, who in order to save some money move to an empty, old house.