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    Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike.

  2. Uncle Silas (US: The Inheritance) is a 1947 British drama film directed by Charles Frank and starring Jean Simmons, Katina Paxinou and Derrick De Marney. It is an adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 novel Uncle Silas in which an heiress is pursued by her uncle, who craves her money following her father's death.

  3. Uncle Silas: With Beatie Edney, Jane Lapotaire, Tim Woodward, Guy Rolfe. Maud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud.

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    • Beatie Edney, Jane Lapotaire, Tim Woodward
  4. One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers.

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  5. Complete summary of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Uncle Silas.

  6. Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance. Charles Frank. Director. Sheridan Le Fanu.

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  8. Uncle Silas is a film adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's novel, starring Robert Eddison as a sinister uncle who tries to inherit his niece's fortune. The movie received mixed reviews from critics and audiences, who praised the atmosphere but criticized the plot and the acting.

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