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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


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: 3.82 · 131,414 ratings · 14,177 reviews · 1,096 distinct works • Similar authors
Carmilla
3.84 avg rating — 84,084 ratings — published 1872 — 4352 editions
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Uncle Silas
3.73 avg rating — 6,292 ratings — published 1864 — 975 editions
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In a Glass Darkly
3.84 avg rating — 5,101 ratings — published 1872 — 247 editions
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Best Ghost Stories of J.S. ...
4.15 avg rating — 1,644 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions
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Green Tea
3.31 avg rating — 1,344 ratings — published 1872 — 50 editions
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Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other...
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3.81 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 1923 — 23 editions
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The House by the Churchyard
3.66 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 1863 — 580 editions
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The Room in the Dragon Volant
3.41 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 1872 — 181 editions
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Green Tea and Other Ghost S...
3.85 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1871 — 4 editions
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Quotes by J. Sheridan Le Fanu  (?)
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“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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“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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“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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