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Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg. Like many of Le Fanu's novels, it grew out of an earlier short story, "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess" (1839), which he also published as "The Murdered Cousin" in the 1851 collection Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery.

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UNCLE SILAS

A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

By
J. S. LeFanu

1899

TO
THE RIGHT HON.
THE COUNTESS OF GIFFORD,
AS A TOKEN OF
RESPECT, SYMPATHY, AND ADMIRATION
This Tale
IS INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR

A Preliminary Word
Chapter I: AUSTIN RUTHYN, OF KNOWL, AND HIS DAUGHTER
Chapter II: UNCLE SILAS
Chapter III: A NEW FACE
Chapter IV: MADAME DE LA ROUGIERRE
Chapter V: SIGHTS AND NOISES
Chapter VI: A WALK IN THE WOOD
Chapter VII: CHURCH SCARSDALE
Chapter VIII: THE SMOKER
Chapter IX: MONICA KNOLLYS
Chapter X: LADY KNOLLYS REMOVES A COVERLET
Chapter XI: LADY KNOLLYS SEES THE FEATURES
Chapter XII: A CURIOUS CONVERSATION
Chapter XIII: BEFORE AND AFTER BREAKFAST
Chapter XIV: ANGRY WORDS
Chapter XV: A WARNING
Chapter XVI: DOCTOR BRYERLY LOOKS IN
Chapter XVII: AN ADVENTURE
Chapter XVIII: A MIDNIGHT VISITOR
Chapter XIX: AU REVOIR
Chapter XX: AUSTIN RUTHYN SETS OUT ON HIS JOURNEY
Chapter XXI: ARRIVALS
Chapter XXII: SOMEBODY IN THE ROOM WITH THE COFFIN
Chapter XXIII: I TALK WITH DOCTOR BRYERLY
Chapter XXIV: THE OPENING OF THE WILL
Chapter XXV: I HEAR FROM UNCLE SILAS
Chapter XXVI: THE STORY OF UNCLE SILAS
Chapter XXVII: MORE ABOUT TOM CHARKE'S SUICIDE
Chapter XXVIII: I AM PERSUADED
Chapter XXIX: HOW THE AMBASSADOR FARED
Chapter XXX: ON THE ROAD
Chapter XXXI: BARTRAM-HAUGH
Chapter XXXII: UNCLE SILAS
Chapter XXXIII: THE WINDMILL WOOD
Chapter XXXIV: ZAMIEL
Chapter XXXV: WE VISIT A ROOM IN THE SECOND STOREY
Chapter XXXVI: AN ARRIVAL AT DEAD OF NIGHT
Chapter XXXVII: DOCTOR BRYERLY EMERGES
Chapter XXXVIII: A MIDNIGHT DEPARTURE
Chapter XXXIX: COUSIN MONICA AND UNCLE SILAS MEET
Chapter XL: IN WHICH I MAKE ANOTHER COUSIN'S ACQUAINTANCE
Chapter XLI: MY COUSIN DUDLEY
Chapter XLII: ELVERSTON AND ITS PEOPLE
Chapter XLIII: NEWS AT BARTRAM GATE
Chapter XLIV: A FRIEND ARISES
Chapter XLV: A CHAPTER-FULL OF LOVERS
Chapter XLVI: THE RIVALS
Chapter XLVII: DOCTOR BRYERLY REAPPEARS
Chapter XLVIII: QUESTION AND ANSWER
Chapter XLIX: AN APPARITION
Chapter L: MILLY'S FAREWELL
Chapter LI: SARAH MATILDA COMES TO LIGHT
Chapter LII: THE PICTURE OF A WOLF
Chapter LIII: AN ODD PROPOSAL
Chapter LIV: IN SEARCH OF MR. CHARKE'S SKELETON
Chapter LV: THE FOOT OF HERCULES
Chapter LVI: I CONSPIRE
Chapter LVII: THE LETTER
Chapter LVIII: LADY KNOLLYS' CARRIAGE
Chapter LIX: A SUDDEN DEPARTURE
Chapter LX: THE JOURNEY
Chapter LXI: OUR BED-CHAMBER
Chapter LXII: A WELL-KNOWN FACE LOOKS IN
Chapter LXIII: SPICED CLARET
Chapter LXIV: THE HOUR OF DEATH
Chapter LXV: IN THE OAK PARLOUR
Conclusion

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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