Jim has edited the collected supernatural fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu (Ash-Tree Press, 2002–05), Bob Leman (Midnight House, 2002 Centipede Press, 2021), and Jane Rice (with Stefan Dziemianowicz: Midnight Press, 2003), a selection of Night Pieces by E.
JIm is one of the consulting editors for Centipede Press and Craftsman Audio’s series The Complete Ghost Stories of J.
He has read widely in supernatural fiction with a particular emphasis on the works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, whose 2014 bicentenary conference and celebration he attended in Dublin. Jim Rockhill received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with a minor in German from the University of Michigan in 1979, and subsequent degrees and certifications in healthcare.
We invite you to an exploration of his life and work, on what is the 208th anniversary of his birth. Fortunately, this Irish jurist, poet, novelist, journalist, and editor has continued to grow in popularity and critical stature with every ensuing decade since James first published his accolade. Pritchett, Robert Aickman, and Roald Dahl, he was long known, if at all, through two works: the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) and the collection of strange tales, In a Glass Darkly, collected the year before his death. Benson, Montague Summers, Dorothy Sayers, Elizabeth Bowen, V. Nobody sets the scene better than he, nobody touches in the effective detail more deftly.”Įven though Le Fanu’s work makes a characteristically fugitive appearance in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939), and has attracted praise from writers as varied as Algernon Swinburne, Charles Dickens, Henry James, E. That is my deliberate verdict, after reading all the supernatural tales I have been able to get hold of. James pronounced: “Le Fanu stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories. In the “Prologue” to Madam Crowl’s Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery (1925), his invaluable gathering of Le Fanu’s hitherto uncollected stories, no less a practitioner of the form than M. Who was Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873)?
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