Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Literary, Horror, Fantasy

by J Sheridan Le Fanu

Overview

One of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598182828
Publisher:	Wildside Press
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.