VOLUME 1***


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J. S. LE FANU'S GHOSTLY TALES, VOLUME 1

Schalken the Painter (1851)

and

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1853)

by

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu






Schalken the Painter


     _"For he is not a man as I am that
     we should come together; neither is
     there any that might lay his hand
     upon us both. Let him, therefore,
     take his rod away from me, and let
     not his fear terrify me."_

There exists, at this moment, in good preservation a remarkable work of
Schalken's. The curious management of its lights constitutes, as usual
in his pieces, the chief apparent merit of the picture. I say
_apparent_, for in its subject, and not in its handling, however
exquisite, consists its real value. The picture represents the interior
of what might be a chamber in some antique religious building; and its
foreground is occupied by a fe