Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873)
Forfatter af Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale
Om forfatteren
The greatest author of supernatural fiction during the nineteenth century was undoubtedly J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Le Fanu was born in Dublin and, as with so many other English popular fiction authors of his time, entered the genre of fiction by way of journalism, working on such publications as the vis mere Evening Mail and the Dublin University Magazine. Le Fanu came from a middle-class background; his family was of Huguenot descent. He graduated from Trinity College and married in 1844. After his wife died in 1858, until his own death, Le Fanu was known as a recluse, creating his ghost fiction late at night in bed. Probably he began writing ghost fiction in 1838; his earliest supernatural story is often cited as being either "The Ghost and the Bone-Setter" or the "Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh," both of which were later collected in the anthology entitled The Purcell Papers (1880). Writing most effectively in the short story form, Le Fanu's tales such as "Carmilla" (a vampire story that is thought possibly to have influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula) and the problematic "Green Tea" are considered by many literary scholars to be classics of the supernatural genre. His lengthy Gothic novels, such as Uncle Silas (1864), though less highly regarded than his shorter fiction, are nonetheless wonderfully atmospheric. Le Fanu's particular brand of literary horror tends toward the refined, subtle fright rather than the graphic sensationalism of Matthew Gregory Lewis. His work influenced other prominent horror fiction authors, including M. R. James. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Sheridan Le Fanu
Three Vampire Tales: Dracula, Carmilla, and The Vampyre (New Riverside Editions) (1993) 103 eksemplarer
The Forgotten Classics of Mystery Volume III - Sheridan le Fanu: The Diabolical Genius: Uncle Silas; The Inn of the… (1959) 14 eksemplarer
Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin (2006) 12 eksemplarer
El fantasma y el ensalmador = The ghost and ten bone setter / el sueño del bebedor = The drunkard's dream (1999) 9 eksemplarer
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu: Volume 1-Including Two Novels, 'The Haunted… (2010) 9 eksemplarer
Illustrated JS Le Fanu: Ghost Stories and Mysteries by a Master Victorian Storyteller (1988) 6 eksemplarer
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu: Volume 3-Including One Novel 'The House by the… (2010) 6 eksemplarer
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan le Fanu: Volume 2-Including One Novel, 'Uncle… (2010) 6 eksemplarer
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu: Volume 5-Including One Novel, 'The Rose and… (2010) 5 eksemplarer
Bibliotheca Dracula. 9 Romane in 3 Bänden: Frankenstein - Dracula - Im Haus des Grafen Dracula - Melmoth - Der… (1978) 5 eksemplarer
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu: Volume 4-Including One Novel, 'The Wyvern Mystery,… (2010) 4 eksemplarer
My Aunt Margaret's Adventure 4 eksemplarer
The ballads and poems of J. Sheridan Le Fanu 4 eksemplarer
The Complete Ghost Stories of Chapelizod 4 eksemplarer
Carmilla. A Vampira de Karnstein - Colecao Classicos da Literatura Universal (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2018) 4 eksemplarer
Carmilla. Based on the Story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers)) (2011) 4 eksemplarer
Különös históriák 4 eksemplarer
Sir Dominick's Bargain 3 eksemplarer
Squire Toby's Will 3 eksemplarer
Carmilla - Il club dei mestieri bizzarri 3 eksemplarer
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Hauntings (Oldstyle… (2014) 3 eksemplarer
Groene thee en andere griezelverhalen 3 eksemplarer
Carmilla, la posada del dragon volador 2 eksemplarer
70 SUPERNATURAL TALES OF GOTHIC HORROR: Uncle Silas, Carmilla, In a Glass Darkly, Madam Crowl's Ghost, The House by the… (2017) 2 eksemplarer
LibriVox Ghost Story Collection 001 2 eksemplarer
Carmilla And Other Gothic Tales By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | Illustrated | Oversized Edition 2 eksemplarer
The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh 2 eksemplarer
Dom przy cmentarzu 2 eksemplarer
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 013 2 eksemplarer
A Little Fuchsia Book of Fears 2 eksemplarer
Carmilla, Green Tea, and Other Horrors: The Best Ghost Stories and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Oldstyle Tales… (2016) 2 eksemplarer
Les créatures du miroir 2 eksemplarer
Carmilla: WITH Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess AND Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter (1872) 2 eksemplarer
Carmilla y otros relatos de terror (Selección clásicos universales) (Spanish Edition) (2017) 2 eksemplarer
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 064 1 eksemplar
Dom przy cmentarzu Tom II 1 eksemplar
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 021 1 eksemplar
Guy Deverell v2 1 eksemplar
Las criaturas del espejo 1 eksemplar
The ghost and the bone-setter El fantasma y el ensalmador ; The drunkard's dream = El sueño del bebedor :… (2007) 1 eksemplar
Guy Deverell v1 1 eksemplar
Tè verde. Tre racconti 1 eksemplar
Schalken il pittore 1 eksemplar
The Ghost and the bone-setter = El Fantasma y el ensalmador ; The Drunkard's dream = El Sueño del bebedor 1 eksemplar
Dublin University magazine 1 eksemplar
Dom przy cmentarzu, T.I 1 eksemplar
In einem dunklen Spiegel 1 eksemplar
Osobliwe zdarzenia. Zbiór opowiadań 1 eksemplar
Laura Silver Bell 1 eksemplar
"A forgotten Creator of Ghosts" by Ednc Kenton 1 eksemplar
The Prelude 1 eksemplar
Night at the Dragon Inn 1 eksemplar
Mr Justice Harbottle 1 eksemplar
In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 1 eksemplar
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan LeFanu (2011-11-02) 1 eksemplar
The Complete Works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1 eksemplar
Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories Volume 2 1 eksemplar
The Vampire Collection 1 eksemplar
Carmen: A Vampire's Innocent Seduction 1 eksemplar
Un oscuro scrutare 1 eksemplar
Ghostly Shorts: 5 Ghostly Short Stories 1 eksemplar
Horror 1. : 16 racconti dell'orrore 1 eksemplar
Carmilla's Lament: A Vampire Tale 1 eksemplar
Die ermordete Cousine (Schlaflosreihe) 1 eksemplar
Cuentos de fantasmas 1 eksemplar
Carmilla [Audible Dramatization[ 1 eksemplar
Carmilla And The Haunted Baronet 1 eksemplar
Guy Deverell Volume III 1 eksemplar
Ghost Stories of the Tiled House (short story) 1 eksemplar
Carmilla - A Vampira de Karnstein 1 eksemplar
L'inseguitore 1 eksemplar
Carmilla 1 eksemplar
Les créatures du miroir 1 eksemplar
Carmilla & O Juiz Harbottle 1 eksemplar
The White Cat of Drumgunniol [short story] 1 eksemplar
Carmilla : The Recording Script 1 eksemplar
Nun vidro misterioso, vol. 2: O familiar, O xuíz Harbotte e Carmilla, unha historia de vampiros (2009) 1 eksemplar
O Vampiro de Karnstein 1 eksemplar
Mr. Justice Harbottle 1 eksemplar
The Haunted Baronet and Others 1 eksemplar
O Vampiro de Karnstein e outras histórias 1 eksemplar
El tio Silas 1 eksemplar
Storie di fantasmi mozzafiato 1 eksemplar
El tío Silas 1 eksemplar
世界恐怖小說選 卷一: 怪誕懸疑的世界恐怖經典 1 eksemplar
Classic Ghost Stories, Volume 3 (Unabridged) 1 eksemplar
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver; Bidragyder — 419 eksemplarer
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Bidragyder — 184 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Bidragyder — 145 eksemplarer
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
The Book of Irish Weirdness: A Treasury of Classic Tales of the Supernatural, Spooky and Strange (1994) — Bidragyder — 96 eksemplarer
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 (2015) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Bidragyder — 81 eksemplarer
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Bidragyder — 54 eksemplarer
The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All (2014) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
The Book of the Dead: Thirteen Classic Tales of the Supernatural (1986) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural (2002) — Bidragyder; Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing (2017) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Bewitched Beings: Phantoms, Familiars, and the Possessed in Stories from Two Centuries (1974) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and Lost Children (The Children of the Night) (1999) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Masters of Shades and Shadows: An Anthology of Great Ghost Stories (1978) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Great Classic Hauntings: Six Unabridged Stories (Audio Editions Mystery Masters) (2000) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 11 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1957, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1957) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love: 45 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2024) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Weird Tales Volume 22 Number 1, July 1933 — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Reading & Training : Stories of ghosts and mystery [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 2 eksemplarer
Classic Crime Collection - 10 Books RRP£70.91 (Lady Audley's Secret, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Raffles, Bleak… — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Fantastyczne Opowieści — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Supernatural Tales 1: The Haunted Ships (Allan Cunningham); Green Tea (Sheridan Le Fanu), Mrs Veal (Daniel Defoe) (1974) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Vampire und Untote. Eine Anthologie von Vampir-Geschichten — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 035 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
English short stories of the nineteenth century — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan
- Andre navne
- Le Fanu, J. S.
- Fødselsdato
- 1814-08-28
- Dødsdag
- 1873-02-07
- Begravelsessted
- Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- Ireland
- Fødested
- Dublin, Ireland
- Dødssted
- Dublin, Ireland
- Dødsårsag
- heart attack
- Bopæl
- Dublin, Ireland
- Uddannelse
- Trinity College, Dublin (law)
- Erhverv
- short-story writer
novelist
lawyer
journalist - Relationer
- Broughton, Rhoda (niece)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (great-uncle)
Sheridan, Frances (great-grandmother)
Lefanu, Alicia Sheridan (grandmother)
Sheridan, Betsy (great-aunt)
Norton, Caroline (second cousin) (vis alle 7)
Blackwood, Helen Selina Sheridan (second cousin) - Organisationer
- Irish Bar (1839)
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Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "Laura Silver Bell" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu i The Weird Tradition (april 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Child That Went with the Fairies" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu i The Weird Tradition (januar 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Green Tea" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu i The Weird Tradition (marts 2022)
Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla i Gothic Literature (februar 2019)
Reading Group #6: 'Green Tea' i Gothic Literature (december 2018)
THE DEEP ONES: "Carmilla" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu i The Weird Tradition (juni 2017)
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"Introduction by M. R. James" handler om ???
"Madam Crowl's Ghost" handler om en ung pige, der bliver sendt ud til sin moster, der passer en meget gammel dame.???
"Squire Toby's Will" handler om ???
"Dickon the Devil" handler om ???
"The Child That Went with the Fairies" handler om ???
"The White Cat of Drumgunniol" handler om ???
"An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street" handler om ???
"Ghost Stories of Chapelizod" handler om ???
" The Village Bully" handler om ???
" The Sexton's Adventure" handler om ???
" The Specter Lovers" handler om ???
" Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling" handler om et vokslys, hvor Walshawe's sjæl er blevet bundet efter døden. Da lyset bliver brændt, kommer en lillebitte person ud under lyseslukkeren og viser et skjult rum i et skrivebord.
" Sir Dominick's Bargain" handler om ???
" Ultor de Lacy" handler om ???
"The Vision of Tom Chuff" handler om ???
"Stories of Lough Guir" handler om miss Anne Baily og de historier, hun fortæller.
" The Magician Earl" handler om en slot, der nu ligger på bunden af søen, Lough Guir. Earl of Desmond var en magiker, der føjede sin unge kones ønske om at se hans kræfter demonstreret. Men hvis hun undervejs sagde en lyd, ville slottet og alle i det, havne på bunden af søen og forblive der i masser af år. Han forvandles til en ådselsgrib, der svæver over hende. Derefter til en hæslig heks. Så til en slange. Så til sig selv der strækker sig og strækker sig. Det får hende til at skrige og slottet havner på bunden af søen. En gang hvert syvende år viser slottet og Jarlen sig og han kan ride til solopgang. Og når engang hesteskoene af sølv er slidt igennem, bliver forbandelsen hævet. Det fortælles også at han forsøger at få folk til at sige noget, når de ser ham. Måske vil det tryllebinde dem og forkorte hans egen forbandelse?
" Moll Rial's Adventure" handler om en ung pige, der vasker tøj ved bredden af søen og bliver tilbudt en ring af en fin herre. Man når hun kigger ned, er vandet blevet fyldt af blod. Så hun siger ikke noget og der sker hende ikke noget.
" The Banshee" handler om at Anne Baily selv har hørt en banshee (som er en venligsindet kvindelig ånd) mens hun og en anden søster vågede over en søster, der var ved at dø af tuberkulose.
" The Governess's Dream" handler om en guvernante, der i et drømmesyn får åbenbaret, hvor en skat er begravet. Efter tre gange at have drømt den samme drøm overtaler hun mr Baily til at grave der og de finder et skatkammer, men desværre helt tomt.
" The Earl's Hall" handler om samme guvernante, der falder i søvn i en af husets sale og ser en lille djævelsk mandsperson gøre tegn til hende. Hun falder i afmagt og dør nogle dage senere.
En række spøgelseshistorier og lidt diskussion af genren. Bogen er en slags opsamling af Le Fanus småhistorier og der er slet ingen af hans bedste historier at finde her. Suppe på en pølsepind.… (mere)