Ghostly Tales I. An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. «An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House» is told through the eyes of Dick, a medical student who moves with his cousin Tom into his uncle’s unoccupied house on Aungier Street, somewhere in Dublin. Dick and Tom begin having nightmares in which they are visited by mysterious floating portraits and the ghost of the judge.