Born in Dublin, Sheridan le Fanu was the great-nephew of the playwright [Richard Brinsley Sheridan]?.
Sheridan le Fanu was a writer of short stories and novels, principally of the strange and supernatural.
He specialised in tone and effect rather than shock horror, yet to the delicate sensibility, such classics of the vampire genre as /Carmilla? can be profoundly effective. Carmilla was to greatly influence Bram Stoker in the writing of Dracula. [/Green Tea]? is an equally unsettling story.
A film [Et mourir de plaisir]? (Literally "And to die of pleasure...", but actually shown in England as "Blood and Roses") was made of Carmilla by French director [Roger Vadim]?, with cinematography by [Claude Renoir]?; it is perhaps one of the greatest of the vampire genre movies, and, predictably enough in a film by Vadim, thoroughly explores the lesbian implications behind Carmilla's selection of victims. The British pulp horror movie house [Hammer Films]? also had a go at Carmilla in [The Vampire Lovers]?; [Ingrid Pitt]? played the anagramatically named Mircalla. (In all there are probably about ten instances of Carmilla having been filmed.)
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