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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was an Anglo-Irish journalist, great-nephew of the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and publisher of several periodicals in Dublin. He was one of the first to develop the ghost story into a recognisable genre. His tale Schalken the Painter is often quoted as the best ghost story of the 19th century.
Schalken the Painter, Carmilla, Green Tea, Squire Toby's Will, Mr Justice Harbottle, The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh, The Familiar, Madam Crowl's Ghost, The Haunted Baronet, An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, The Dead Sexton, Ghost Stories of the Tiled House, The White Cat of Drumgunniol, An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House, Sir Dominick's Bargain, Ultor de Lacy
Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851)
Chronicles of Golden Friars (1871)
The Purcell Papers (1880)
In a Glass Darkly (1872)
The Watcher and Other Weird Stories (1894)
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Stories (1923)