Schalken the Painter (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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Schalken the Painter (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

  1. 46 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Schalken the Painter (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

About this book

From the pen of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the undisputed master of Victorian Gothic horror and Irish supernatural fiction, comes one of his most chilling and visually haunting tales.

Schalken the Painter (1839) is a brilliant early work that fuses the supernatural with the visual arts, setting the stage for Le Fanu's signature subtle dread. It follows the story of a young, ambitious Dutch painter named Godfrey Schalken and his entanglement with a devastatingly beautiful young woman, Rose Velderkaust. Rose is essentially sold by her greedy uncle to a mysterious, silent, and immensely wealthy suitor named Mynher Vanderhausen. This suitor is not human, but a being with an unearthly chill, and the painting Schalken later creates becomes the terrifying vehicle for the truth of this diabolic bargain.

This story is a quintessential piece of Gothic Classicism, admired for its stunningly eerie atmosphere, its themes of Faustian contract, and its profound exploration of unholy horror concealed behind the facade of wealth and respectability. It perfectly blends artistic obsession with spectral dread.

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Information

Publisher
Fantasy and Horror Classics
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781447405528
eBook ISBN
9781447480105

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. A Biography of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  6. Madam Crowl’s Ghost