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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2)

by Joseph Sheridan LE FANU (1814 - 1873)

Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father's mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Listen next episodes of Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2):
Uncle Silas , A Chapter Full of Lovers , A Curious Conversation , A Friend Arises , A Midnight Departure , A Midnight Visitor , A Sudden Departure , A Walk in the Wood , A Warning , A Well-Known Face Looks In , An Adventure , An Apparition , An Arrival at Dead of Night , An Odd Proposal , Angry Words , Arrivals , Au Revoir , Austin Ruthyn Sets Out On His Journey , Bartram-Haugh , Before and After Breakfast , Church Scarsdale , Conclusion , Cousin Monica and Uncle Silas Meet , Dr. Bryerly Emerges , Dr. Bryerly Looks In , Dr. Bryerly Reappears , Elverston and its People , How the Ambassador Fared , I am Persuaded , I Conspire , I Hear from Uncle Silas , I Talk with Doctor Bryerly , In Search of Mr. Charke's Skeleton , In the Oak Parlour , In Which I Make Another Cousin's Acquaintance , Lady Knollys' Carriage , Lady Knollys Removes a Coverlet , Lady Knollys Sees the Features , Madame de la Rougierre , Milly's Farewell , Monica Knollys , More About Tom Charke's Suicide , My Cousin Dudley , News at Bartram Gate , On the Road , Our Bedchamber , Question and Answer , Sarah Mathilda Comes to Light , Sights and Noises , Somebody in the Room with the Coffin , Spiced Claret , The Foot of Hercules , The Hour of Death , The Journey , The Letter , The Opening of the Will , The Picture of a Wolf , The Rivals , The Smoker , The Story of Uncle Silas , The Windmill Wood , We Visit a Room in the Second Storey , Zamiel