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Podcast: Classic Ghost Stories
Episode: S02E35 Green Tea by J Sheridan Le Fanu
Description: Joseph Sheridan Le FanuLe Fanu was an Irish writer born in Dublin in 1814 and who died in Dublin in 1873. In his time he was the leading writer of ghost stories and macabre tales. On the podcast, we have read out his masterwork, Carmilla, but Green Tea is an equally well-known story.He was judged by the master ghost story writer of a later generation, M R James as being absolutely first rank. His family were of French protestant (who fled France because of persecution) and English descent. His family were writers, and his grandmother Alice Sheridan Le Fanu and his gre...