Word was the hotel -- the Dragon Volant -- was haunted. Worse yet, Richard Beckett had taken lodging in the very room that gave the hotel its curious reputation.
"The Room in the Dragon Volant" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is a classic example of Gothic horror. The tale follows Richard, a young man from England who finds himself in France during Napoleon's reign. It's here that he falls in love with a Countess whom he just sees for a moment. That fleeting moment is all it took for him to desire to be close to her and he checks himself into the haunted Dragon Volant hotel where she's staying. Little does he know, guests of this inn seem to be disappearing into thin air.
The Room in the Dragon Volant is a novel By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872. It is a gothic mystery story about a wealthy young Englishman named Richard Beckett, who is asked to help the Count de St Alyre and his younger beautiful wife, the Countess de St Alyre, with some affair and gets in an exciting train of adventures with an unexpected finale.
Amidst the turbulent backdrop of post-Napoleonic France, Richard Beckett, an Englishman, finds himself embroiled in the affairs of a mysterious countess and her enigmatic chambermaid. Drawn to the allure of forbidden love and hidden secrets, Beckett’s journey leads him to the foreboding Dragon Volant inn, where he discovers that nothing is as it seems and that even the walls hold dark and sinister secrets. JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU [1814-1873] was an Irish mystery and horror author. He had an enormous influence on the horror genre in the 19th and 20th century, especially through his championing of tone and effect rather than shock factor. Among his most noted work is the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla [1872] and mystery Uncle Silas [1864].
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Filled with mystery and gothic horror elements, “The Room in the Dragon Volant” takes place in post-Napoleonic Wars France. Young Englishman Richard Beckett falls in love with the mysterious Countess. To be closer to her, he takes a room in the “Dragon Volant” inn, which has a rather nasty reputation.
This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1863. Born in Dublin in 1814, he came from a literary family of Huguenot origins; both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights,
The Room in the Dragon Volant By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was first published 1872. This gothic mystery story was about a Long con of a wealthy young Englishman named Richard Beckett. Beckett helps the Count de St Alyre and his younger wife the Countess de St Alyre (with her exotic Violet eyes).