Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla è un racconto del 1872 di Sheridan Le Fanu. La protagonista omonima è il vampiro femminile più conosciuto. La sua figura, ricca di fascino e sensualità, ha anticipato la figura del Dracula di Bram Stoker.

Lo Zio Silas è un romanzo gotico vittoriano scritto dal romanziere anglo-irlandese Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Al suo interno si possono ravvisare elementi di thriller, ma il romanzo è noto anche come uno dei primi esempi di “enigma della camera chiusa”. Non è propriamente un romanzo del soprannaturale, ma dimostra un …

In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third are revised versions of previously published stories, and the fourth and fifth are long enough to be called novellas. The title is taken from 1 Corinthians 13, a …

Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book to be published in the United States. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,026 copies. A much less extensive collection of Le Fanu …

The House by the Churchyard is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Aside from its own merits, the novel is important as a key source for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.