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J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

August 28, 1814

Died

February 07, 1873

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Horror, Short Stories

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M.R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 215,073 ratings · 28,929 reviews · 1,255 distinct works ‧ Similar authors

	Carmilla 3.87 avg rating — 167,344 ratings — published 1872 — 2701 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncle Silas 3.74 avg rating — 7,001 ratings — published 1864 — 946 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In a Glass Darkly 3.84 avg rating — 5,819 ratings — published 1872 — 128 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, E.F. Bleiler (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 1,691 ratings — published 1872 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Tea 3.26 avg rating — 1,869 ratings — published 1872 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 843 ratings — published 1870 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Room in the Dragon Volant 3.46 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 1872 — 203 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House by the Churchyard 3.65 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 1863 — 569 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La storia segreta di una contessa irlandese by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Valentina Pesci (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1838 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories 3.82 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 1871 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu (8 books)
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Quotes by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (?)

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: death, hatred, love, selfishness

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“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: carmilla, classic, gothic, horror, joseph-sheridan-le-fanu

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“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: depression, melancholy

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December 2018 Old School Poll

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 1849, 624 pages

98 votes, 35.3%

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 1832, 240 pages

80 votes, 28.8%

In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1872, 384 pages

40 votes, 14.4%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages

31 votes, 11.2%

Vathek by William Beckford 1786, 170 pages

29 votes, 10.4%

278 total votes

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