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 ...

Although many will not recognize the name of Dublin novelist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, this literary talent and writer of "Carmilla" is behind most of the spooky vampire tales we know and love today.

When Le Fanu took over the magazine, however, far from ascending, the ruling class was in fact in steep decline. The anxiety both personal and political this caused him is considered key to the tone ...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels in the nineteenth century, best known for his stories “Uncle Silas,” “Carmilla,” and “The House by the Churchyard.” ...

Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a monthly column dedicated to horror films and TV shows, past and present. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella “Carmilla” was first published in 1871 in The Dark Blue, ...

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His posthumous reputation was burnished in 1947 when Elizabeth Bowen declared that his novel Uncle Silas, although set in England, was in spirit an entirely Irish novel, and that far from being the ...

The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories ...