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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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	Carmilla 3.86 avg rating — 134,873 ratings — published 1872 — 2611 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 — 6,802 ratings — published 1864 — 940 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 3.85 avg rating — 5,625 ratings — published 1872 — 265 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 4.15 avg rating — 1,682 ratings — published 1964 — 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
	Green Tea 3.27 avg rating — 1,696 ratings — published 1872 — 159 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 — 811 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
	Carmilla: La vampira e il detective dell'occulto by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Stella Sacchini (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 714 ratings	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 3.45 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 1872 — 195 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 3.66 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 1863	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) 3.95 avg rating — 434 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

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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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May 2016 Short Story Poll

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 122 pages, 1922

44 votes, 20.8%

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 64 pages, 1892

40 votes, 18.9%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879

35 votes, 16.5%

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, 112 pages, 1594

29 votes, 13.7%

Summer by Edith Wharton, 127 pages, 1917

26 votes, 12.3%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 88 pages, 1774

20 votes, 9.4%

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages, 1872

13 votes, 6.1%

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, 88 pages, 1865

5 votes, 2.4%

212 total votes

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