{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"J. Sheridan Le Fanu","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/j-sheridan-le-fanu","author_name":"J. Sheridan Le Fanu","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/j-sheridan-le-fanu","description":"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 \u0026quot;absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories\u0026quot;. Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/author/62312/10ed29a3-5bf2-4268-b255-47ccc0f67594.jpg","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":246}