Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. When thinking of the origins of Vampire literature in the Western world, chances are you ...

Outliving Dracula explores the radical influence of the classic (and first) lesbian vampire story, JS Le Fanu's Carmilla, on generations of filmmakers - from Carl Dreyer's extraordinary Vampyr to ...

The Google Doodle depicts a scene from Le Fanu's famous novella Carmilla(Image: ) You might not realise but today's Google Doodle actually marks the 200th birthday of Irish Gothic horror writer ...

Thinking about watching 'Le Fanu's Carmilla' on any device? Pinpointing where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to stream or rent the Ivan Zuccon directed movie can be more complicated than ...

The latest Google doodle – a wispy, fanged blonde girl-head floating over a sleeping dark-haired woman – commemorates the 200th birthday of the Irish novelist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73). The ...

Analysis: Le Fanu's gothic stories can help us engage in the far more terrifying task of confronting reports of horrors in the real world Dr Cecilia Sayad at the University of Kent argues that the ...

But just like that infamous quote about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, another vampire has been doing everything Dracula did, backwards and in high heels and for longer than Dracula’s even been ...

Writer-director Emily Harris’s version of Le Fanu’s vampire novella adds a feminist focus on repression but sparks don’t fly This revisionist adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1871 vampire novella ...

A Google Doodle is celebrating the 200th birthday of Sheridan Le Fanu, the pioneering gothic horror writer. The doodle shows a scene from one of the author’s most famous novels – Carmilla. Carmilla, a ...