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Rhoda Broughton does her uncle Le Fanu proud!!! - By: The Holy Ferret, 06 Nov 2008
Rhoda Broughton, neice to J. Sheridan Le Fanu, is a veritable 'exhibit A'in any arguement suggesting that talent is down to genealogy.

These twelve tales, two of which are mysteries rather than ghost stories, are some of the best I've read of her era. Comparablein many ways to J.H. Riddell,in that Broughton rarely explains why the eventsin her story are occuring, she's an expert at making the spine chill & few of her stories are predictable.

Apart from her obsession with insisting the events depictedin her tales are true, she's extremely readable, with a sense of prose that always invites intrigue. Particularly I enjoyed 'The Man with the Nose', which has a great many similarities with her uncle's masterpiece 'Schalken the Painter'. This is a great collection of very folkloric feeling ghost stories. If you see it going anywhere second hand, it's an essential purchase.