J. Sheridan Le Fanu

J. Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic fiction and ghost stories, who also worked as a journalist and newspaper owner. He was best known for Uncle Silas (1864), The House by the Churchyard (1863), and the collection In a Glass Darkly (1872), which includes the novella Carmilla, a foundational work of vampire literature. Le Fanu died in 1873.