The House by the Churchyard is a novel bySheridan Le Fanu published in 1863 that combineselements of the mystery novel and the historicalnovel. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin,in the 1760s the story opens with the accidentaldisinterment of an old skull in the churchyard,and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relatesto murders, both recent and historical whoserepercussions disrupt the complacent pace of villageaffairs and change the lives of many of its notablecharacters forever. Charm and chilling darknessabound in equal measure in one of the greatestnovels of a Victorian master of mystery.