<b>The Haunted Baronet by Sheridan Le Fanu</b>&nbsp;is a novella published in 1871 in the Chronicles of Golden Friars, a collection of short stories set in the imaginary English village of Golden Friars.<br /><br /><b>Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu&nbsp;</b>was an Irish writer of&nbsp;Gothic&nbsp;tales,&nbsp;mystery&nbsp;novels, and&nbsp;horror fiction. He was a leading&nbsp;ghost story&nbsp;writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the&nbsp;Victorian era. M. R. James&nbsp;described Le Fanu as &quot;absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories&quot;. Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery&nbsp;<i>Uncle Silas</i>, the lesbian vampire novella&nbsp;<i>Carmilla</i>, and the historical novel&nbsp;<i>The House by the Churchyard</i>.<br /><br />Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street,&nbsp;Dublin, into a literary family of&nbsp;Huguenot, Irish and English descent. He had an elder sister, Catherine Frances, and a younger brother, William Richard. His parents were&nbsp;Thomas Philip Le Fanu&nbsp;and Emma Lucretia Dobbin.<br /><br />Both his grandmother&nbsp;Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu&nbsp;and his great-uncle&nbsp;Richard Brinsley Sheridan&nbsp;were playwrights (his niece&nbsp;Rhoda Broughton&nbsp;would become a successful novelist), and his mother was also a writer, producing a biography of&nbsp;Charles Orpen.