Le Fanu's earliest work, the Irish tales: a hanging in Tipperary, a house on Aungier Street with a room nobody keeps, Schalken the painter and what he saw in the vault, and the first version of the story that became Carmilla. He was known in Dublin as the Invisible Prince for the seclusion of his last years, writing at night in bed; these were published anonymously in the 1830s and 40s, and the Ireland in them is not picturesque.