In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
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In a Glass Darkly

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble, Daniel Philpott, , Sean Barrett, David Horovitch, Nicholas Boulton, and Alison Pettitt

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 08/28/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

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’.

About Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu
(1814–1873), born in Dublin, established himself as a journalist and writer of
fiction and became one of the best-selling authors of the 1860–80s. His
sinister and supernatural tales are the precursors of the modern ghost story
and inspired such authors as Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on October 11, 2020

"What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same." DEMON MONKEY I read the Folio Society edition of this book and that red-eyed demon monkey was on the front c......more

Goodreads review by Anne on October 16, 2024

In a Glass Darkly is a reference to something the apostle Paul said in the Bible about not being able to see reality in the way it actually is because we are looking through an imperfect (dark) glass. I just thought that was a cool piece of trivia that I'd always wondered about. Anyway. This is a col......more

Goodreads review by A.E. on July 06, 2021

The star rating is based solely on the stories, and I'd recommend reading them. But in a different edition. Most every book has a handful of typos, even with the number of eyes that go over them, but the typos in this edition had to be in the hundreds. New paragraphs would start mid-sentence, much of......more

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