Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (; 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873), popularly known as J. S. Le Fanu, was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, mystery novels, and horror fiction. Considered by critics to be one of the greatest ghost story writers of the Victorian era, his works were central to the development of the genre during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Le Fanu was a key figure in the dark romanticism movement, and M. R. James described him as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". He is best remembered for the locked-room mystery ''Uncle Silas'' (1864), the historical novel ''The House by the Churchyard'' (1863), and the collection of five stories ''In a Glass Darkly'' (1872), which includes ''Carmilla'', one of the earliest works of vampire fiction and highly influential as a seminal work in the lesbian vampire genre. Provided by Wikipedia