The House by the Churchyard
                        
                     
                                            
                            
                                                                by Sheridan Le Fanu
                                                                
                                    2020-11-20 03:29:04
                                
                                
                             
                         
                                     
                
                    The House by the Churchyard
                                            
                                                            by Sheridan Le Fanu
                                                        
                                2020-11-20 03:29:04
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863. A skull unearthed in a churchyard show signs of violent blows to the head and, even more disturbingly, the small hole caused by trepanning. One hundred y...
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                                                Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863. A skull unearthed in a churchyard show signs of violent blows to the head and, even more disturbingly, the small hole caused by trepanning. One hundred years before, a coffin is buried secretly, "R.D." the only identification on its brass plague. The House by the Churchyard was a major source of inspiration for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake .
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