“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873), best known as Sheridan Le Fanu, was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are *Uncle Silas*, *Carmilla*, and *The House by the Churchyard*. **Source**: [Sheridan Le Fanu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu) on Wikipedia.
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“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”
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“Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population...”
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“There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.”
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