Sheridan Le Fanu

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators....

This was the very first vampire thriller! Pure innocence becomes the target of age-old evil. Virtuous Laura has grown up in a solitary castle and longs for a close friend. Her wish seems granted with the arrival of a beautiful and mysterious stranger named Carmilla. A friendship develops but the...

The story of a lonely young woman living in a remote location, the tale explores eerie seduction, supernatural mystery, and forbidden desire.

Audible Originals brings you a brand new audiobook adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic novella, Carmilla....

In the gloomy depths of a Styrian castle, young Laura becomes enchanted by Carmilla—a beautiful aristocrat harboring dark secrets. As their intense friendship blossoms into something more dangerous, a wave of mysterious deaths sweeps through the countryside.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists ...

Demons, vengeful spirits, insanity, premature burials, and lesbian vampires. In a Glass Darkly contains five diabolical tales of horror and mystery that will get the heart racing....

The Ultimate Gothic Horror Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic gothic stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe....

Laura lives an isolated life with her father, alone in a castle in the Austrian wilderness. When the mysterious Carmilla, a strange and beautiful lady...

This thrilling story is one of the earliest vampire books written, and it sets the stage for an entire genre of exciting Gothic novels....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.

Carmilla fue una de las primeras historias de vampiros escritas, precursora de muchas obras de éxito, como es el caso de Drácula de Bram Stoker, quien se basó en muchas características de Sheridan Le Fanu para escribir su obra.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and was an influential writer in gothic and supernatural fiction of the 19th century. Here are six of his short stories: “The White Cat of Drumgonnial”, “Dickon the Devil”, “The Drunkard's Dream”, and more....

The moonlight spills like silver across ancient walls, and somewhere in the velvet darkness, a whisper stirs—a name, half-sighed, half-forgotten. ...

Predating Bram Stoker's "Dracula" by twenty-five years, Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" is one of the earliest examples of vampire fiction; a Gothic novella narrated by a young girl who becomes a victim of the title character, a female vampire with whom she also kindles a romance.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin. Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell....

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu nació en Dublin el 28 de agosto de 1814. Sheridan Le Fanu nació en el seno de una familia acomodada....

Green Tea is the story of the Reverend Jennings, who consumes copious amounts of green tea while pursuing his esoteric interests late at night. When something goes wrong, he approaches Dr Hesselius, who sets out the narrative in the form of a series of letters to another physician....