The Watcher
1974
First Published
3.38
Average Rating
60
Number of Pages
Born in Dublin in 1814, Sheridan Le Fanu came from a literary family of Huguenot origins; both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his greatuncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights, and his niece Rhoda Broughton would go on to become a su
Avg Rating
3.38
Number of Ratings
85
5 STARS
9%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
52%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Author · 68 books
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu 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.
