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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: 3.83 · 85,997 ratings · 7,676 reviews · 771 distinct works • Similar authors

	Carmilla 3.82 avg rating — 47,988 ratings — published 1872 — 2976 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 by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Victor Sage (Introduction) 3.74 avg rating — 5,844 ratings — published 1864 — 396 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 — 4,595 ratings — published 1872 — 134 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 4.16 avg rating — 1,626 ratings — published 1964 — 5 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 3.32 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 1872 — 98 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) 3.83 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 1923 — 15 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 3.67 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 1863 — 166 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 3.89 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1871 — 4 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 3.38 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1872 — 113 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
	J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales V1 3.81 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2004 — 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

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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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“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 dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

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Polls

February 2016 Monthly Short Story Poll

1942, The Stranger by Albert Camus, 123 pages

27 votes, 18.2%

1915, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 98 pages

23 votes, 15.5%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages

23 votes, 15.5%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

17 votes, 11.5%

1937, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages

16 votes, 10.8%

1995, Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood, 127 pages

9 votes, 6.1%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1960, Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges, 96 pages

6 votes, 4.1%

1894, A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin, 26 pages

6 votes, 4.1%

1912, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 96 pages

5 votes, 3.4%

1922, The Case of the Registered Letter by Auguste Groner, 64 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

148 total votes

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