Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.<br><br>Green Tea is an iconic Gothic horror story which tells the story of a tea-drinking clergyman haunted by a terrifying black monkey which follows him wherever he goes urging him to dreadful deeds and blighting his life in every way.<br><br>The case is related by the erudite Dr. Martin Hesselius a German doctor whom the clergyman had consulted.