Author Description

'Uncle Silas' is Sheridan Le Fanu's most critically acclaimed work, a locked-room gothic mystery novel in the tradition of Wilkie Collins, but with a darker edge. The narrator is Maud Ruthyn, a teenage heiress who lives in a sombre mansion with her morbid father. Things change, however, when she becomes aware of the existence of a lost uncle, a man with a sinister and mysterious past...