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 ...

But just like that infamous quote about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, another vampire has been doing everything Dracula did, backwards and in high heels and for longer than Dracula’s even been ...

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 ...

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.

First published in 1872, this was a collection of five short novels all of which were written by Le Fanu. The stories are all papers of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius and Carmilla ...

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 ...

Having inspired everything from extreme gothic metal to a series of manga books, Sheridan Le Fanu’s 19th-century lesbian vampire romance Carmilla was about due a modern movie adaptation.