Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfən.juː/; 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction...
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Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu (1753–1817) was an Anglo-Irish writer. She was the daughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Chamberlaine...
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Carmilla (category Novels by Sheridan Le Fanu)
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)...
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Le Fanu is a surname, also spelled LeFanu. Notable people with the name include Alicia Le Fanu (born 1791), Irish poet and writer Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu...
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Irish Gothic literature (section Sheridan Le Fanu)
theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, which was co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu. Le Fanu's 1872 Carmilla was an important influence on Stoker's Dracula...
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legend, even though it was published after fellow Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla. The success of this book spawned a distinctive...
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instead loosely based on Carmilla, an 1872 Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, which is often cited as the first published British work of fiction...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla may also refer to: Carmilla Black, Marvel Comics character...
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The House by the Churchyard (category Novels by Sheridan Le Fanu)
The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Aside from its...
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mentioned in several novels, including the Cock and Anchor (1845) by Sheridan Le Fanu and Ulysses by James Joyce. Literary patrons included James Clarence...
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influential works include the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire (1847); Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, Carmilla (1872), and the most well known:...
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The Carmilla Movie (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
series were adapted from the 1872 gothic novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The film received a limited release in Canada on October 26, 2017...
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Dublin University Magazine (section Sheridan Le Fanu)
Joseph Barry, a friend of Sheridan Le Fanu's brother William, who was arrested in 1848 on a charge of treason). Sheridan Le Fanu's first story appeared in...
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Uncle Silas (category Novels by Sheridan Le Fanu)
Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been...
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In a Glass Darkly (category Short story collections by Sheridan Le Fanu)
In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third stories...
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Carmilla (film) (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
feature directorial debut. Based on the 1871 novella of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu, it stars Jessica Raine, Hannah Rae, Devrim Lingnau, Tobias Menzies...
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written and directed by Bret Wood. It is based on the novel Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu but was transposed from a Gothic tale set in Austria to a Southern...
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the 1839 story Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu, and stars Jeremy Clyde as Godfried Schalcken and Maurice Denham as...
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Thomas Philip Le Fanu (1784–1845) was an Irish Dean in the first half of the 19th century. He was the son of Joseph Le Fanu and Alicia Sheridan, and the father...
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Negovanlis, and is loosely based on the novella of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu. The series premiered on the Vervegirl (rebranded as KindaTV as of...
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Running a distant second are adaptations of the 1872 novel Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. By 2005, the Dracula character had been the subject of more films...
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author Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), Irish writer Sheridan Miyamoto, American nurse Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), British broadcaster and writer Sheridan Mortlock...
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and Sheridan Le Fanu inaugurated this "Golden Age". Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the most influential writers of ghost stories. Le Fanu's collections...
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theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, which was co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu, an author of Gothic tales. Theatre critics were held in low esteem...
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Twins of Evil (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
film in the Karnstein Trilogy, based on the 1872 novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. The film has the least resemblance to the novella and adds a witchfinding...
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Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince), Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla), Bram Stoker (Dracula), Oliver Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield)...
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The Vampire Lovers (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
It was produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is based on the 1872 Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla and is the first film in the Karnstein Trilogy, the...
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November 2017. Le Fanu, Sheridan (February 5, 1870) "The White Cat of Drumgunniol", All the Year Round. Republished in Le Fanu, Sheridan (1923), Madam...
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barrister and judge. His granddaughter married the celebrated writer Sheridan le Fanu. He was born in Cork, the son of George Bennett. William Henn of Paradise...
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William Richard Le Fanu (24 February 1816 – 8 September 1894) was an Irish railway engineer and Commissioner of Public Works. Le Fanu was born at the...
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