Title: A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family

Title: A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family Title Record # 884804
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date: 1839-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Webpages: babel.hathitrust.org
Language: English

Note: This story was later reworked and expanded by Le Fanu as The Wyvern Mystery Originally published in Dublin University Magazine, [October] 1839 according to E. F. Bleiler in Ghost Stories and Mysteries. The Project Gutenberg edition (in Two Ghostly Mysteries) gives 1836 as the original date, with no source cited.

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Year	Title
1839	A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family [as by uncredited]
1894	A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
1975	A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
1992	A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]

Year	Language	Title
1936^ⓘTranslated by Georgette Camille	French	Histoire d'une famille de Tyrone
1999^ⓘTranslated by Maria José Antón	Spanish	Un capítulo de la historia de la familia de Tyrone [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Dublin University Magazine, October 1839	1839-10-00	ed. Editors of Dublin University Magazine	William Curry, Jun. and Company				unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag
The Purcell Papers	1880-00-00	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	Richard Bentley & Son			xxxi+ 236+ 273+ 289	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Watcher and Other Weird Stories	1894-00-00	J. Sheridan Le Fanu	Downey & Co.			vi+ 271+ 4+ 3	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Victorian Ghost Stories	1933-10-00	ed. Montague Summers	Fortune Press		7/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	xiv+ 412	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Ghost Stories and Mysteries	1975-00-00	J. S. Le Fanu	Dover Publications	0-486-20715-3		ix+ 372	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales	1992-03-00	ed. Chris Baldick	Oxford University Press	0-19-214194-5	£16.95^?£: UK pound	xxiii+ 533	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	T. C. Gotch
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales	1993-07-00	ed. Chris Baldick	Oxford University Press	0-19-283117-8	£7.99^?£: UK pound	xxiii+ 533	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	T. C. Gotch
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales	1993-08-19	ed. Chris Baldick	Oxford University Press	0-19-283117-8	$13.95^?$: US dollar	xxiii+ 533	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	T. C. Gotch
Victorian Ghost Stories	1996-00-00	ed. uncredited	Senate	1-85958-133-1		iv+ 335	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales	2001-00-00	ed. Chris Baldick	Oxford University Press	0-19-286219-7	$16.95^?$: US dollar	533	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Michael Trevillion
Two Ghostly Mysteries	2004-07-06	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	Project Gutenberg	12828	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Irish Ghost Stories	2005-00-00	ed. uncredited	Wordsworth Editions	1-84022-487-8		1102	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	E. W. Haslehust
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family and the Murdered Cousin	2005-02-28	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	IndyPublish.com	1-4142-4104-6	$88.99^?$: US dollar		tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Two Weird Mysteries	2006-09-01	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	Aegypan	1-59818-979-4	$9.95^?$: US dollar	108	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Purcell Papers, Vol. 3	2008-05-24	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	Project Gutenberg	511			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales	2009-00-00	ed. Chris Baldick	Oxford University Press	978-0-19-956153-7	£9.99^?£: UK pound	xxiii+ 533	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Sergey Galushko
Two Ghostly Mysteries	2009-11-02	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	Serenity Publishers	978-1-60450-756-0	£4.99^?£: UK pound	110	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan le Fanu: Volume 1	2010-04-19	J. Sheridan Le Fanu	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-145-4	£22.99^?£: UK pound	576	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan le Fanu: Volume 1	2010-04-29	J. Sheridan Le Fanu	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-146-1	£14.99^?£: UK pound	576	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Irish Ghost Stories	2011-05-00	ed. Rosemary Gray	Wordsworth Editions (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)	978-1-84022-660-7	£2.99^?£: UK pound	608	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology	2011-09-23	ed. Andrew Barger	Bottletree Books	978-1-933747-33-0	$17.99^?$: US dollar	218	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Two Ghostly Mysteries	2012-02-20	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	Serenity Publishers	978-1-60450-999-1	$7.99^?$: US dollar	128	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Watcher and Other Weird Stories	2012-08-15	J. Sheridan Le Fanu	Project Gutenberg	40510	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Ghost Stories and Mysteries	2012-09-11	J. S. Le Fanu	Dover Publications	978-0-486-14469-6	$24.95^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Purcell Papers	2013-03-20	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	The Echo Library	978-1-4068-0845-2	£12.90^?£: UK pound	244	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Gothic Terror Megapack	2015-01-28	ed. Shawn M. Garrett	Wildside Press (Megapack)	978-1-4794-0229-8	$0.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth

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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)