With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le
Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of
mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of
the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most
celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a
pioneer psychologist. These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's
most accomplished work, which rises above the staid conventions of
the age. Although drawing on Gothic conventions - the book features
both ghosts and vampires - Le Fanu redefined the parameters of
supernatural fiction. He had little interest in the crude depiction
of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a
pleasurable frisson of fear. Le Fanu concern rather lay in the
examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche
of his protagonist, in this he paved the way for the work of Henry
James and M. R. James. This volume is an indispensable cornerstone
of modern horror and remains one of the finest collections of
unsettling fiction in the language.
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