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Will It Scare Me
1863

The house by the church-yard

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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.

By Sheridan Le Fanu

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Ireland in fictionFictionhistoricalgeneralmystery & detectiveClassic LiteratureMysteryEnglish literaturereligioushorror

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