author
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1814–1873
Best known for eerie ghost stories and the vampire tale Carmilla, this Irish master of Gothic fiction helped shape the atmosphere and suspense of Victorian supernatural writing.
33 Audiobooks
Wylder's Hand
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Cock and Anchor
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers — Volume 1
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Evil Guest
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers — Volume 3
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Room in the Dragon Volant
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Watcher, and other weird stories
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers: Index and Contents of the Three Volumes
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers — Volume 2
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 The Haunted Baronet (1871)
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The House by the Church-Yard
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Wyvern mystery
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Stable for Nightmares; or, Weird Tales
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sir Charles L. (Charles Lawrence) Young
Checkmate
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 2
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 3
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Willing to Die: A Novel
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
All in the dark
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
About the author
Born in Dublin on August 28, 1814, Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer, journalist, and newspaper proprietor. He came from an old Huguenot family and became one of the key figures in 19th-century Gothic fiction, admired especially for his gift for quiet dread, haunted settings, and psychological unease.
Le Fanu wrote across several forms, but he is remembered most for ghost stories, mystery novels, and supernatural fiction. Among his best-known works are Uncle Silas and the 1872 collection In a Glass Darkly, which includes Carmilla, a vampire story that appeared decades before Dracula and remains his most famous work today.
He died in Dublin on February 7, 1873. His reputation has only grown over time, and he is now widely seen as one of the great Victorian writers of the supernatural.