Biography
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels in the nineteenth century, best known for his stories “Uncle Silas,” “Carmilla,” and “The House by the Churchyard.”
Complete Filmography

Imaha
2024
Writer
IMAHA is a short film loosely based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's (1814-1873) story with the original title "The child that went with the fairies".

Lies We Tell
2023
Novel
An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy.

Carmilla
2020
Story
Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine....

The Carmilla Movie
2017
Novel
It has been five years since Laura and Carmilla vanquished the apocalypse and Carmilla became a bonafide mortal human. They have settled in to a cozy ...

The Curse of Styria
2014
Novel, Story
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerg...

All Catacombs Are Gray
2013
Novel
A collage animated adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s cult novel about vampire Carmilla, which not only inspired Bram Stocker to write Dracula, but also...

Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire
2004
Story
It's a face-off against two of the most evil supernatural forces: vampires fueled by bloodlust and zombies who've come back from the dead to prey on t...
Marcilla
2003
Story
Marcilla is a magnificent contemporary interpretation of Sheridan Le Fanu's novella "Carmilla" about a lonely female student who is visited by a myste...

The Wyvern Mystery
2000
Novel
After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor...

Carmilla
1998
Characters
J. Sheridan LeFanu's famed, oft-adapted novel gets adapted again... but now it's in Long Island.

Carmilla
1989
Story
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman f...

Carmilla: The Petrified Heart
1988
Story
On a night with a full moon and a storm, Laure, still a child, is awakened by the tears of a young woman who has entered her room. At first intrigued,...

The Dark Angel
1987
Novel
The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress M...

Carmilla
1980
Novel
Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.

The Sleep of Death
1980
Story
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into ...

Schalcken the Painter
1979
Short Story, Writer
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

Alucarda
1977
Novel
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl...
Carmilla
1976
Story
Venezuelan television adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu‘s Carmilla.

The Blood Spattered Bride
1972
Novel
A young newlywed woman begins to have disturbing nightmares just after settling into the old mansion that has belonged to her husband's family for cen...

Inn At the Flying Dragon
1972
Short Story
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions, and mysteries to the TV screen. It's part of his...

Twins of Evil
1971
Characters
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, G...

Lust for a Vampire
1971
Characters
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. Th...

The Vampire Lovers
1970
Novel
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for...

Uncle Silas
1968
Writer
After her father's death, Maud, a young heiress, is sent to live with her Uncle Silas. She finds her new guardian living in a gothic nightmare of a ma...

Blood and Roses
1960
Novel
The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her vi...

Uncle Silas
1947
Novel
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance...

The Mysterious Uncle Silas
1947
Novel
A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.

Vampyr
1932
Novel
A student of the occult encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris.
Shamus O'Brien
1912
Poem
Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla
N/A
Story
Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 ye...

Le Fanu's Carmilla
N/A
Story
A lonely Styrian woman saves a mysterious stranger who is revealed as a vampire. The two befriend each other, eventually falling into a doomed romance...