J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814 into a family of Huguenot descent; his great-uncle was the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His father was a Church of Ireland clergyman, and Joseph grew up mostly in County Limerick. He studied law at Trinity College Dublin but turned to journalism, and he owned and edited several Dublin newspapers and magazines, including the Dublin University Magazine. His first stories appeared in the 1830s. After the death of his wife in 1858 he withdrew from society and wrote mostly at night. His novels include The House by the Churchyard and Uncle Silas (1864), a mystery about a young heiress in the care of her sinister uncle. In a Glass Darkly (1872) collects five tales presented as the papers of a doctor interested in the supernatural, including Green Tea and Carmilla, about a female vampire who preys on a young woman in a castle in Austria. Carmilla influenced later vampire stories, including Bram Stoker's Dracula. Le Fanu died in Dublin in 1873.

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Faith: Born into an Irish Protestant family of Huguenot descent. Source: Wikipedia