In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
"In a Glass Darkly" is a collection of five short stories in the horror and mystery genres, all presented as cases of a fictional physician whose researches lead him into the dark corners of the supernatural. The tales involve a range of eerie and macabre happenings such as a man being haunted by his doppelgänger, a cursed mirror, a deadly spectral wolf, a case of spontaneous combustion, and the iconic story of a woman being preyed upon by a female vampire. The stories are tied together by the posthumous papers of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius.
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- Published
- 1872
- Nationality
- Irish
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-500
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
- Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (Book edited by Marshall B. Tymn)