Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots. The children were…

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"The delight of hell is to do evil to man, and to hasten his eternal ruin." - Swedenborg

Published alongside "Carmilla" in the landmark collection In a Glass Darkly (1872)…

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The stranger, having finished this message, turned abruptly, and, with a quick, but silent step quitted the room, before Schalken had time to say a word in reply. The young…

The exquisite and deadly vampire Carmilla haunts LeFanu’s influential novel. A Gothic tale of blood and terror, Carmilla inspired later classics by Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson.

The sixth volume of an eight book collection from ‘the grandfather of the ghost story’ Whilst many highly regarded writers have created collections of strange and supernatural fiction and several…

The fourth volume of an eight book collection from ‘the grandfather of the ghost story’ Whilst many highly regarded writers have created collections of strange and supernatural fiction and several…