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In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "through a glass darkly." The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Green Tea a clergyman is being driven mad by an evil demon that takes the ephemeral form of a monkey, but is unseen by others as it burdens the victim's mind with psychological torment. In The Familiar, revised from Le Fanu's The Watcher of 1851, a sea captain is stalked by a dwarf, "The Watcher." Is this strange character from captain's past? In Mr Justice Harbottle a merciless court judge is attacked by vengeful spirits, dreaming he is sentenced to death by a horrific version of himself. The story was revised from 1853's An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street. In The Room in the Dragon Volant, a notable mystery which includes a premature burial theme, an innocent young Englishman in France tries to rescue a mysterious countess from her unbearable situation. Lastly, Carmilla tells the tale of a lesbian vampire. It was a huge influence on Bram Stoker's writing of Dracula and the basis for the films Vampyr in 1932 and The Vampire Lovers in 1970.
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English Fantasy fiction, English Ghost stories, English Occult fiction, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Supernatural, English Paranormal fiction, Paranormal fiction, Ireland, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), English fiction Short stories, Ireland, Fiction, gothic, Fiction, horror, Ireland -- Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Paranormal fiction, english, Pr4879.l7 i5 2008, 823/.8, Fic029000, Fiction, fantasy, paranormalPlaces
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In a Glass Darkly(wordsworth Mystery & the Supernatural)
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In a Glass Darkly (Wordsworth Collection)
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In a glass darkly
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