#tbt #throwbackthursday....
ok we're going back. BACK 200 years in fact! Because, today is the
anniversary of the birth of one Joseph Thomas SHERIDAN Le Fanu...200
years ago this very day in 1814. Born at 45 Lower Dominick Street,
Dublin, into a literary family of
Huguenot origins, Le Fau would become a celebrated writer of Gothic
tales and mystery novels, the leading ghost-story writer of the
nineteenth century and central to the development of the genre in the
Victorian era. We salute Mr Le Fanu today, for his vampire novella
"Carmilla", which formed the framework for the 1970 Hammer film, 'The
Vampire Lovers' starring Ingrid Pitt and Peter Cushing.. Please join us
in wishing a Happy 200th Birthday to #SheridanLeFanu!
Sheridan Le Fanu
The Vampire Lovers
