Corrections

This is a correction to the primary bibliography of Le Fanu in my Greenwood book of 1995: Le Fanu's story "The Dead Sexton" appeared in "Across the Bridge," the Christmas Annual of 1871 in the magazine Once a Week, not "Magic Leaves," the Christmas number of 1870.  This information was provided by Barry Cross and Jim Rockhill.

This is another correction to the text of my bio-bibliography of Le Fanu:  Jim Rockhill reports that after consulting William Le Fanu's journal and Emmie Le Fanu's 9 February 1873 letter to Lord Dufferin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu died on 7 February, not 10 February, as stated in one place in W. J. McCormack's book Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1980).  In another place McCormack gives the 7 February 1873 date for Le Fanu's death.  Rockhill has pointed out the contradictions about Le Fanu's death date in several sources. I took this date from McCormack's book (also carried over in the chronology of Le Fanu by Ivan Melada in Sheridan Le Fanu (Boston: Twayne, 1987)).  Rockhill will be discussing this matter and the sensational legend of Le Fanu's death in the introduction to the final volume of Le Fanu's ghost stories he is editing for Ash-Tree Press.  This superb volume has now been published (see below).

This is another correction to the primary bibliography in my bio-bibliography of Le Fanu.  I quote  Jim Rockhill:

"The publication dates given for the serialization of "A Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay" in the second volume of this series [Rockhill's Le Fanu edition from Ash-Tree Press], and in Gary William Crawford's J. Sheridan Le Fanu:  A Bio-Bibliography are incorrect.  After consulting his copy of the magazine serialization, Mr. Barry Cross kindly wrote to inform me that this short novel first appeared not in the June and July 1870 issues of Cassell's Magazine, but in weekly issues of that magazine from 2 October 1869 to 13 November 1869.  Neither M.R. James nor S.M. Ellis had identified a publication for this work preceding its first appearance in Chronicles of Golden Friars.  The first appearance of "Madam Crowl's Ghost" is not in this serialization, but in All the Year Round (31 December 1870), and the first appearance of the prologue to that tale first appeared in Chronicles of Golden Friars."

In preparing my bibliography of Le Fanu, I drew the publication dates of the above items in Once a Week and Cassell's Magazine from William Clinton Lougheed's 1961 Harvard dissertation  "Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu:  A Critical Biography."  I did not have access to the magazine parts.

Additions

Several stories by Le Fanu were reprinted in the British magazine Argosy in the first half of the twentieth century.  These were not found for my Greenwood Press Le Fanu bibliography and are as follows:

"Green Tea." (Dec. 1932).

"Madam Crowl's Ghost."  (Jan. 1932).

"The Room in the Dragon Volant." (Dec. 1928);  (Jan. 1929); and (Feb. 1929).

"Sir Dominicks Bargain." (Sept. 1943).

"A Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter."  (May 1934).