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 "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House” (1862) and “Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen” (1861) – a story of inherited castle, once the place of action of a terrible story that interrupted the family of Lacy.