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In a Glass Darkly (Paperback, annotated edition)
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In a Glass Darkly (Paperback, annotated edition)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James
described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu
was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible
Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was
fascinated by the occult. His writings draw on the Gothic
tradition, elements of Irish folklore, and even on the social and
political anxieties of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries. In exploring
sometimes inexplicable terrors, the tales focus on the unease of
the haunted men and women who encounter the supernatural, rather
than on the origin or purpose of the visitant. This makes for
spine-chilling reading. The five stories presented here have been
collected by Dr Hesselius, a `metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner
of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider the ghosts
both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful
anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates
that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.
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