A review by whimsicalmeerkat
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.0

[a:Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu|26930|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206504583p2/26930.jpg] does bone-chilling creepiness exceedingly well. This book made the hairs on my neck stand up at least twice; not the easiest thing to accomplish with fiction. The story contains several villains, with varying degrees of overt nastiness and subtlety. That being said, I found myself repeatedly grinding my teeth at or wanting to shake the heroine into using her brain at least once in a while. Admittedly, I am relatively unversed in the gothic horror sub-genre having only previously read the Bronte sisters, but I do not recall their heroines being quite so limp and hysterical. This definitely hurt my enjoyment of an otherwise excellent book. [b:Uncle Silas|49190|Uncle Silas|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170357891s/49190.jpg|2847087] is yet another book that makes me wish I had the option to give 3.5 stars. As it is, being unable to accurately give it 4, I have to downgrade it to 3.