Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu

Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu contains a carefully selected supernatural and ghostly tales by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. This anthology includes Carmilla, green tea, Schalken the Painter and many more.



I am going to tell you now of a dream that led immediately to an odd discovery.

One night, instead of the voice I was accustomed to hear in the dark, I heard one, sweet and tender, and at the same time terrible, which said, "Your mother warns you to beware of the assassin." At the same time a light unexpectedly sprang up, and I saw Carmilla, standing, near the foot of my bed, in her white nightdress, bathed, from her chin to her feet, in one great stain of blood.