J. Sheridan Le Fanu was born in 1814 and died in 1873., J. Sheridan Le Fanu has written at least 155 books. Their most popular book is Carmilla with 714 saves with an average rating of 3.79⭐.
Author Bio
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.
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Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.79
379 reads
In a Glass Darkly
3.9
12 reads
Uncle Silas
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.17
8 reads
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
3.5
20 reads
The Dark descent
David G. Hartwell
King, Stephen
John Collier
M. R. James
Lucy Clifford
Russell Kirk
H. P. Lovecraft
Shirley Jackson
Harlan Ellison
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ray Bradbury
Michael Shea
Edith Nesbit
Karl Edward Wagner
Robert Aickman
Fritz Leiber
Robert Bloch
Charles L. Grant
Manly Wade Wellman
Disch, Thomas M.
Theodore Sturgeon
Clive Barker
Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
William Faulkner
Robert Hichens
Richard Matheson
Joanna Russ
Dennis Etchison
David Herbert Lawrence
Tanith Lee
Flannery O'Connor
Ramsey Campbell
Henry James Jr.
Gene Wolfe
Charles Dickens
Joyce Carol Oates
Walter De la Mare
Ivan Turguenev
Robert Chambers
Oliver Onions
Fitz-James O'Brien
Ambrose Bierce
Edith Wharton
Algernon Blackwood
Philip K. Dick
Stephen King
Thomas M. Disch
D. H. Lawrence
Gene Wolfe
Robert W. Chambers
Ambrose Bierce
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
4.5
4 reads
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Phyllis Cerf
0
1 read
Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
0
0 reads
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Sarah Ponsonby
Anna Seward
Emily Dickinson
Christina Rossetti
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Katherine Bradley
Edith Cooper
Sarah Orne Jewett
Katharine Lee Bates
Helen Rose Hull
Michel de Montaigne
Henry Fielding
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Sigmund Freud
Charlotte Charke
Maria Edgeworth
Anne Lister
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Colette
Henry Handel Richardson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Radclyffe Hall
Vita Sackville-West
Charles Baudelaire
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Marie Madeleine
Renée Vivien
Rose O'Neill
Clemence Dane
Djuna Barnes
Anaïs Nin
William Cullen Bryant
Jewelle L. Gómez
Charlotte Mew
Gertrude Stein
Amy Lowell
Katherine Mansfield
Angelina Weld Grimké
Virginia Woolf
H.D.
Carson McCullers
William Rounseville Alger
Rita Mae Brown
Katherine Philips
Aphra Behn
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Eleanor Butler
Audre Lorde
Willa Cather
5
1 read
Damnable Tales
Robert Aickman
Shirley Jackson
M.R. James
Thomas Hardy
Walter de la Mare
Fiona Macleod
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Arthur Machen
Eleanor Scott
Margery Lawrence
E.F. Benson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2
1 read
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
Tanith Lee
Fritz Leiber
Richard Matheson
Robert Bloch
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
John William Polidori
R. Chetwynd-Hayes
August Derleth
James Malcolm Rymer
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Charles L. Grant
Clark Ashton Smith
Robert Aickman
Carl Jacobi
Steve Rasnic Tem
M.R. James
Charles Beaumont
E.F. Benson
C.M. Kornbluth
Manly Wade Wellman
Algernon Blackwood
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
F. Marion Crawford
Ramsey Campbell
P. Schuyler Miller
C.L. Moore
Suzy McKee Charnas
Lord Byron
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Bram Stoker
4
2 reads
Green Tea and Mr. Justice Harbottle
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
2.75
4 reads
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
4
3 reads
House by the Churchyard
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
0
0 reads
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
0
0 reads
Gothic Short Stories
Ambrose Bierce
M.R. James
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ralph Adams Cram
S. Carleton
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Richard Barham Middleton
E.F. Benson
Nathan Drake
Charles Maturin
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth Gaskell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Walter Scott
3
1 read
The Moons At Your Door
Robert Aickman
Algernon Blackwood
D.K. Broster
Robert W. Chambers
Aleister Crowley
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Elizabeth Gaskell
W.W. Jacobs
M.R. James
Vernon Lee
L.A. Lewis
Thomas Ligotti
Arthur Machen
Guy de Maupassant
Saki
Count Stenbock
Montague Summers
H. Russell Wakefield
Edith Wharton
Alfred McClelland Burrage
Charles Perrault
Thomas De Quincey
0
1 read
Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3
1 read
Great Ghost Stories
2
2 reads
Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
5
1 read
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories
A.C. Benson
E.F. Benson
Ambrose Bierce
Algernon Blackwood
Marjorie Bowen
F. Marion Crawford
Charles Dickens
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
William Hope Hodgson
M.R. James
Henry James
Bram Stoker
Edith Wharton
Michelle Tang
0
0 reads
Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New
0
0 reads
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914
William Hope Hodgson, Elizabeth Gaskell, John Meade Falkner, M.R. James, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Arnold Bennett, E. Nesbit, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells
Love Has No Gender - Pride Month Special Series: Gay Classics: Joseph and His Friend, This Finer Shadow, Regiment of Women, Sappho, The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
Harlan Cozad McIntosh
Bayard Taylor
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Theodore Winthrop
Jack Saul
Lucas Malet
Henry Blake Fuller
Petronius
Sappho
Clemence Dane
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0 reads
The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
0
0 reads
Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
0
0 reads
Vampiras. Antología de relatos sobre mujeres vampiro
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Théophile Gautier
Robert Bloch
Richard Matheson
Manly Wade Wellman
David H. Keller
Fritz Leiber
William Tenn
Tanith Lee
Julian Hawthorne
F. Marion Crawford
Seabury Quinn
August Derleth
4
1 read
Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales to Read at Christmas
The Greatest Works of Sheridan Le Fanu (65+ Novels & Short Stories in One Edition): Wylder's Hand, Willing to Die, Haunted Lives, Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, The Murdered Cousin…
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, Charles Robert Maturin, Lucasta Miller, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catherine Gore, John William Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Letitia E. Landon, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Virginia Woolf, Ian Watson, L.P. Hartley, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, E.F. Benson, Basil Copper, Ralph Adams Cram, Herbert de Hamel, M.R. James, Elizabeth Albright, James Herbert, Algernon Blackwood, A.E. Coppard, W.W. Jacobs, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Hugh Walpole, Ellen Glasgow, Richard Dehand, Norah Lofts, H. Russell Wakefield, William F. Nolan, Nigel Kneale, William Fryer Harvey, Fay Weldon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Joan Aiken, Louisa Baldwin, Peter Haining, Penelope Lively, Richard Hughes, Charlotte Ridel, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Ray Bradbury, Thorp McClusky, Ruth Rendell