Sheridan Le Fanu Horror Stories

Beautiful collector’s edition featuring Le Fanu’s best stories, many of which influenced the next generation of classic horror: Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Black wood and M.R. James.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was a highly influential Irish author, born in Dublin, whose work spread across the English-speaking world, where his impression can be found in the stories of Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Bram Stoker and many others. Although trained as a lawyer, he became a writer of sensational literature, exploring the dark and fantastic, becoming one of the foundational purveyors of classic horror ghost stories, including his famous early work of vampire fiction Carmilla. His father was Richard Sheridan, playwright of The Rivals and The School for Scandal. This new collection of Le Fanu’s stories, with a new foreword, is a must-read selection of classic writing.

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic mystery tales, who was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Author of ’The House by the Churchyard’ (1863) and ’Uncle Silas’ (1864), it is Le Fanu’s ’Carmilla’ that remains his best-known Gothic tale. The story of a female vampire’s advances towards a young girl greatly influenced Bram Stoker’s ’Dracula’ (1897) as well as twentieth century films.