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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

1814–1873

Best known for eerie classics like Uncle Silas and Carmilla, this Dublin-born writer helped shape the modern ghost story and vampire tale. His fiction mixes Gothic suspense with quiet psychological unease, which is why it still feels uncanny today.

33 Audiobooks

Carmilla

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Cock and Anchor

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Watcher, and other weird stories

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The House by the Church-Yard

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Checkmate

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A Stable for Nightmares; or, Weird Tales

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sir Charles L. (Charles Lawrence) Young

The Room in the Dragon Volant

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Wylder's Hand

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Wyvern mystery

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Purcell Papers — Volume 1

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Evil Guest

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Purcell Papers — Volume 2

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Purcell Papers — Volume 3

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Two Ghostly Mysteries

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Willing to Die: A Novel

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Tenants of Malory, Volume 2

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Tenants of Malory, Volume 3

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

About the author

Born in Dublin in 1814, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and journalist whose work became central to Victorian Gothic fiction. He wrote supernatural tales, mysteries, and sensation novels, and he is especially remembered for Uncle Silas and the vampire novella Carmilla.

Le Fanu also worked in journalism and edited literary publications in Dublin. His stories are known for their shadowy settings, carefully built tension, and interest in fear that grows from suggestion rather than spectacle.

He died in 1873, but his influence lasted well beyond his lifetime. Readers still return to his work for its blend of ghostly atmosphere, psychological suspense, and early horror themes that would inspire many later writers.