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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 · 241,171 ratings · 33,511 reviews · 1,364 distinct works • Similar authors

	Carmilla 3.87 avg rating — 192,336 ratings — published 1872 — 2851 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 — 7,151 ratings — published 1864 — 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
	In a Glass Darkly 3.84 avg rating — 5,961 ratings — published 1872 — 271 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) 4.14 avg rating — 1,701 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 3.25 avg rating — 1,964 ratings — published 1872 — 169 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 — 864 ratings — published 1870 — 38 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 3.47 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 1872	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 — 521 ratings — published 1863 — 567 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 — 482 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 3.81 avg rating — 354 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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October 2021 Old School Classics

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 158 pages

58 votes, 26.5%

Washington Square by Henry James 1880, 240 pages

47 votes, 21.5%

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 1766, 197 pages

33 votes, 15.1%

The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa -400, 160 pages

32 votes, 14.6%

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1864, 477 pages

25 votes, 11.4%

A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift 1704, 208 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen 1880, 187 pages

11 votes, 5.0%

219 total votes

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