There are many brilliant adaptations of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s seminal gothic horror novella, Carmilla ... Dunn’s intentions are clear. She quotes Robert Eggers’s The Witch: “Wouldst ...

Carmilla, a novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, could be called the original vampire novel of modern Europe. Written in 1871, the novella is a first-person account from Laura, a young English ...

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in The Dark ...

Although many will not recognize the name of Dublin novelist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, this literary talent and writer of "Carmilla" is behind most of the spooky vampire tales we know and love today.

His novella Carmilla is one of the earliest examples of a vampire story in English literature and predates Dracula by some 25 years. Of French Huguenot descent, Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was ...

Outliving Dracula explores the radical influence of the classic (and first) lesbian vampire story, JS Le Fanu's Carmilla, on generations of filmmakers - from Carl Dreyer's extraordinary Vampyr to ...

His vampire novel Carmilla predates Dracula ... also the makers of many vampire movies. 2. Sheridan Le Fanu - an Irish name? His full name is Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu - the French element ...