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    In a Glass Darkly
    In a Glass Darkly
    In a Glass Darkly
    Audiobook12 hours

    In a Glass Darkly

    Written by Sheridan Le Fanu

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Daniel Philpott, Alison Pettitt and

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    Demons, vengeful spirits, insanity, premature burials and lesbian vampires, In a Glass Darkly contains five diabolical tales of horror and mystery that will get the heart racing. Each story, including the famous Green Tea and Carmilla, is presented as a case from the posthumous papers of Dr Martin Hesselius, a metaphysical physician who has no doubt as to the existence of supernatural phenomena – unlike our anxious protagonists... These traditional, yet unfamiliar tales were revered upon release, with Bram Stoker writing his own vampire story some twenty years later, and Henry James once suggesting that this is ‘the ideal reading... for the hours after midnight’.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateSep 15, 2015
    ISBN9781843799207
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    Sheridan Le Fanu

    J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer who helped develop the ghost story genre in the nineteenth century. Born to a family of writers, Le Fanu released his first works in 1838 in Dublin University Magazine, which he would go on to edit and publish in 1861. Some of Le Fanu’s most famous Victorian Gothic works include Carmilla, Uncle Silas, and In a Glass Darkly. His writing has inspired other great authors of horror and thriller literature such as Bram Stoker and M. R. James.

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    • 3/5
      These Victorian ghost stories are just OK--not particularly scary, except for the last one, "Carmilla." Le Fanu indulges in the irritating Victorian practice of finishing a date or street address with a dash, (We arrived in N___ St.) I'm glad that device has gone out of style.
    • 5/5
      A collection of gothic short stories taken from a "collection" of papers and reports from Dr Martin Hesselius, who had fascination with "metaphysical medicine".The stories are well written and engaging.
    • 4/5
      a good collection of stories though not quite as horrifying as I expected. The first one, with the haunting monkey, was the weakest; I thoroughly enjoyed the intrigue of the Dragon Volant, not really knowing where it was leading, and the last one, Carmilla, was quite sensual though it finished too abruptly, as many vampire stories do.
    • 3/5
      The stories here hold some of the beginnings of what we now consider the horror genre, and they stand up to time as tales that are both chilling and fascinating. That said, the best of the bunch are easily "The Familiar" and "Carmilla"; "The Familiar" is haunting and strange--it stays with you, and that's all that needs to be said. "Carmilla" is one of the early vampire stories that directly speaks of vampires, and worthwhile not only as a story in itself, but for someone looking for the roots of vampirism in contemporary literature. "The Room in the Dragon Volant" is the one story that drags somewhat, but still, it's worth the read. On a separate note, while I fully recommend this book to lovers of horror and the supernatural, I do not recommend this particular edition that I came across, from Adamant Media Corporation, Elibron Classics. The number of typos and mistakes were, in all truth, infuriating. Nevertheless, the stories made the book well worth my time. I'd give the book four and a half stars, this edition one...hence, I settled on three.
    • 4/5
      In a Glass Darkly is made up of five short stories (although "Dragon Volant" is long enough to be classified as a novella) that are a mix of ghost stories, horror, mystery and fantastic. Each story is a little stranger than the last which makes for the perfect Halloween-time read especially with the lights dimmed low. The book ends with the short story "Carmilla" about a lesbian vampire who needs more than victims to survive. "Carmilla" appears to have the most success out of all the short stories, prompting other authors to write similar vampire stories with greater success.
    • 3/5
      A collection of 5 short stories in the gothic genre. Really earliest horror stories. 2 are novellas. One is carmilla, a vampyre story, which inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula. Well worth reading.