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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Lifespan
1814 – 1873
Nationality
Irish
Active
1836 – 1880
Works held
7

J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was the leading ghost-story writer of the Victorian age and a founding figure of modern supernatural fiction. His vampire novella Carmilla (1872) predates Dracula by a quarter-century and remains hugely influential, and collections like In a Glass Darkly set the template for the psychological weird tale. A crucial ancestor of the horror side of the fantastic.

The works

  1. 1880
    Cover of The Purcell Papers, Volume 2 The Purcell Papers, Volume 2
  2. 1872
    C Carmilla Cover of Carmilla Carmilla Cover of Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle Cover of In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3
  3. 1851
    Cover of J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
  4. 1836
    Cover of Two Ghostly Mysteries Two Ghostly Mysteries

Wrote across

1830s1850s1870s1880s

Recurring themes

HorrorFantasy

Kindred authors shared themes

Alexandre DumasAlgernon BlackwoodAnna Bonus KingsfordAnonymousArlo BatesArthur MachenArthur Quiller-CouchBaron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Jules VerneMark TwainGeorge MacDonaldEdward BellamyBaron Edward Bulwer Lytton LyttonFrank R. StocktonGeorge MeredithAndrew LangJohn Ames MitchellLewis Carroll

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