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J Sheridan Le Fanu


Ireland (1814 - 1873)
Uncle of Rhoda Broughton

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu has been the inspiration and motive force behind a great deal of modern horror literature; his tales of horror inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula; it was the custom, according to Henry James, for Victorian hosts to place a volume of his stories on a guest's bedside table for 'the hours after midnight'; and M R James, the famous ghost story teller, considered him 'absolutely in the front rank' as a supernatural writer. Yet in modern times Le Fanu has been unaccountably ignored.
 

Genres: Horror, Mystery
 
Novels
   The Cock and Anchor (1845)
   Torlogh O'Brien (1847)
   The House by the Churchyard (1861)
   Wylder's Hand (1863)
   Uncle Silas (1864)
   Guy Deverell (1865)
   The Prelude (1865)
   All in the Dark (1866)
   The Tenants of Malory (1867)
   Haunted Lives (1868)
   A Lost Name (1868)
   The Wyvern Mystery (1869)
   Checkmate (1871)
   The Rose and the Key (1871)
   Carmilla (1872)
   Willing to Die (1873)
   The Evil Guest (1895)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies containing stories by J Sheridan Le Fanu
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Holy Ghosts (2023)
Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 38)
edited by
Fiona Snailham
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Haunted Tales (2022)
Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural
edited by
Leslie S Klinger and Lisa Morton

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