One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menacedby unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
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- Murderers
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- Fiction, horror
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- English literature
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Governesses -- Fiction
- Uncles -- Fiction
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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- Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense
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