About Author

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873), was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, mystery novels, and horror fiction. Considered by critics to be one of the greatest ghost story writers of the Victorian era, his works were central to the development of the genre during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Le Fanu was a key figure in the dark romanticism movement. He is best remembered for the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas (1864), the historical novel The House by the Churchyard (1863), and the collection of five stories In a Glass Darkly (1872), which includes Carmilla, one of the earliest works of vampire fiction.