Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 – February 7, 1873) was an Irish writer of short stories and mystery novels. His ghost stories are an early example of the genre of horror fiction in its modern form, in which (as in the famous tale "Schalken the Painter"), virtue does not always triumph and easy explanations for supernatural occurrences are not always forthcoming.

External links

• E-texts of many Le Fanu stories and information on his life is available at http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Fanu.html.
• An electronic version of Carmilla is available at http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/lit.htp.
• Works by Le Fanu from Project Gutenberg