Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2)
Author: first_name: Joseph Sheridan
last_name: Le Fanu
Language: English
Year: 1899

Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned  and moves in with  her Uncle Silas, her father's mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult - Summary by Lynne Thompson