movement death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality name birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
dark romanticism 7 february 1873 dublin , ireland james henry james , charlotte brontë joyce , charles dickens , bram stoker , dublin , ireland walter emanuel swedenborg , samuel taylor coleridge scott , ann radcliffe , samuel warren , irish joseph sheridan le fanu 28 august 1814 gothic horror , mystery sheridan le fanu 002.png sheridan le fanu
 joseph thomas sheridan le fanu novelist
sheridan le fanu

joseph thomas sheridan le fanu -lrb- ; 28 august 1814 -- 7 february 1873 -rrb- 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 '' .
