Sheridan Le Fanu

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

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

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

This was the very first vampire thriller! Pure innocence becomes the target of age-old evil.....

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

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...

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

When the tale begins, a strange and sudden malady is claiming the lives of the local peasants in Styria. Laura, an innocent girl of eighteen, lives a lonely life there with her loving father and two governesses. Then a dramatic coach crash on Laura’s doorstep brings a mysterious, beautiful...

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....

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

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.

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 ...

Before Dracula ever stalked the night, there was Carmilla—the haunting Gothic novella that helped define the modern vampire.

Another collection of great classic novellas by superb storytellers, including Robert E. Howard, E. T. A. Hoffman, Edith Wharton, Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, F. Marion Crawford and more....

La protagonista, Laura, narra cómo su vida pasa de plácida y tranquila a desconcertante y espantosa cuando aparece Carmilla, una joven hermosa y enigmática. Laura es una joven que vive con su padre y unos criados en un antiguo castillo en las lejanías de Estiria (Austria).

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels....

Laura and her father live a quiet life in their remote castle in the dense forests of Styria. It is a solitary existence for young Laura....

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.

The four stories in this compilation, not by James, are meant to serve as prime illustrations of the best work of a few of his contemporaries and immediate antecedents....

Groundbreaking for the time in which they were written, the vampire stories of the 1800s have inspired many modern writers....