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    Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfən.juː/; 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction...
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    Carmilla (category Novels by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)...
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  • Le Fanu is a surname, also spelled LeFanu. Notable people with the name include Alicia Le Fanu (born 1791), Irish poet and writer Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu...
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  • Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu (1753–1817) was an Anglo-Irish writer. She was the daughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Chamberlaine...
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  • theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, which was co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu. Le Fanu's 1872 Carmilla was an important influence on Stoker's Dracula...
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    instead loosely based on Carmilla, an 1872 Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, which is often cited as the first published British work of fiction...
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    legend, even though it was published after fellow Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla. The success of this book spawned a distinctive...
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  • The Carmilla Movie (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    series were adapted from the 1872 gothic novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The film received a limited release in Canada on October 26, 2017...
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    The House by the Churchyard (category Novels by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Aside from its...
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    In a Glass Darkly (category Short story collections by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third stories...
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  • Carmilla (film) (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    feature directorial debut. Based on the 1871 novella of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu, it stars Jessica Raine, Hannah Rae, Devrim Lingnau, Tobias Menzies...
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  • The Vampire Lovers (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    It was produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is based on the 1872 Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla and is the first film in the Karnstein Trilogy, the...
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  • the 1839 story Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu, and stars Jeremy Clyde as Godfried Schalcken and Maurice Denham as...
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  • written and directed by Bret Wood. It is based on the novel Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu but was transposed from a Gothic tale set in Austria to a Southern...
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    Uncle Silas (category Novels by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been...
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    influential works include the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire (1847); Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, Carmilla (1872), and the most well known:...
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  • Alicia Le Fanu (1791 – 29 January 1867) was an Irish poet and writer. Alicia Le Fanu was the daughter of Betsy Sheridan and Captain Henry Le Fanu, and a...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla may also refer to: Carmilla Black, Marvel Comics character...
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  • Watcher and Other Weird Stories, a collection of short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu The Watcher, a 1981 novel written by Kay Nolte Smith Watchers (novel)...
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  • Terror in the Crypt (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    based on the 1872 novel Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Terror in the Crypt is based on Sheridan Le Fanu's novel Carmilla. It is the third adaptation...
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    playwrights and authors, including Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, William Trevor, John Millington Synge, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Moore...
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    Dublin: Sphere Books Limited,ISBN 0-85342-866-2; ISBN 978-0-85342-866-4. Sheridan Le Fanu, Joseph, (5 February 1870) The Child That Went with the Fairies All...
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  • November 2017. Le Fanu, Sheridan (February 5, 1870) "The White Cat of Drumgunniol", All the Year Round. Republished in Le Fanu, Sheridan (1923), Madam...
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    Negovanlis, and is loosely based on the novella of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu. The series premiered on the Vervegirl (rebranded as KindaTV as of...
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  • Nightmare Classics (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    adaptations of well-known horror stories by authors including Henry James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce. Following the success of...
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  • Joseph Barry, a friend of Sheridan Le Fanu's brother William, who was arrested in 1848 on a charge of treason). Sheridan Le Fanu's first story appeared in...
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    mentioned in several novels, including the Cock and Anchor (1845) by Sheridan Le Fanu and Ulysses by James Joyce. Literary patrons included James Clarence...
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  • author Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), Irish writer Sheridan Miyamoto, American nurse Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), British broadcaster and writer Sheridan Mortlock...
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  • Sheridan Le Fanu was born on 24 January 1925. Victor was the son of Major-General Roland Le Fanu DSO MC and Marguerite Le Fanu (née Lumsden). Le Fanu...
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  • Blood and Roses (category Films based on works by Sheridan Le Fanu)
    Vadim. It is based on the novella Carmilla (1872) by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, shifting the book's setting in 19th-century Styria to the film's 20th-century...
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