Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Le Fanu was called to the bar, but never actually practiced law. Instead, he chose a literary career and published his first story, The Ghost and the Bonesetter, in 1838. In 1840, he acquired the Protestant Guardian and the Warden newspapers, which he edited until 1842. In 1861, he became the owner of Dublin University Magazine in which many of his stories were subsequently serialized. He sold the magazine in 1869. Le Fanu's genre is horror, mystery and crime and in these he was a master. Most of his work are short stories, although he did publish some novels such as The Cock and the Anchor (1845) and The Fortunes of Colonel Torbagh O'Brien (1847). His best-known work includes The Purcell Papers (1838-1840), Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851), Uncle Silas (1864) and In a Glass Darkly (1872), all of which are collections of supernatural short stories.
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