Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 814 73) a and story writer as soon as he finished college. He lived his life in a country rich in old, magical stories. His first ghost story came out in 1838 when he was in his twenties, and ghost stories were a new idea. Le Fanu wrote many more ghost stories, as well as other tales of mystery and terror. He married Susanna Bennett in 1843, but his wife went slowly mad and died in 1858. After that Le Fanu lived alone in the middle of nowhere, writing and writing and writing.