Carmilla, Hardcover/Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than the generally-considered master work of that genre, Dracula, the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's novella. In the earliest manuscript of Dracula, dated 8 March 1890, the castle is set in Styria, although the setting was changed to Transylvania six days later. As with Dracula, critics have looked for the sources used in the writing of the text. Matthew Gibson proposes that Le Fanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Dissertations sur les apparitions des anges, des demons et des esprits, et sur les revenants et vampires de Hongrie, de Boheme, de Moravie, et de Silesie, which was first anonymously translated into English in a single volume in 1759. 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. Three of his best known works are Uncle Silas, "Carmilla" and The House by the Churchyard.

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Sheridan Le Fanu

scriitor irlandez de povestiri gotice și romane de mister (1814–1873)

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu a fost un scriitor irlandez de literatură gotică, jurnalist și proprietar de ziar. Le Fanu este considerat de criticii literari printre cei mai mari scriitori de povești cu fantome ale epocii victoriene, deoarece mai multe dintre lucrările sale au fost centrale în dezvoltarea genului.