A shadowy figure, Henry Ferris Arnold had published several works in the Dublin University Magazine in the mid nineteenth century, one of which was mis-attributed to Sheridan Le Fanu. A collection of stories and essays by Ferris was published in 1997 by Tartarus Press under the editorship of S.T. Joshi, but it has subsequently been found that two of the stories were in fact translations by Ferris, not his original work. “A Leaf from the Berlin Chronicles” is by E.T.A.Hoffman and “Tobias Guarnerius” is by Charles Rabou. The others may well be by Ferris. His two best weird tales are “A Night in a Haunted House” and “A Night in the Bell Inn”.
