Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/_l_f_nju_/; 28 August 1814ÊÐ 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot, Irish and English descent. He had an elder sister, Catherine Frances, and a younger brother, William Richard. His parents were Thomas Philip Le Fanu and Emma Lucretia Dobbin. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu