- English Fantasy fiction, English Ghost stories, English Occult fiction, Fiction
In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "through a glass darkly."
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Grave, bleak, earnest and classical in form.
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- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- First published
- 1872
- Pages
- 332
- Publisher
- Bentley, ReadHowYouWant.com, HardPress
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781388271541
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“THOUGH carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either.”
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873), best known as Sheridan Le Fanu, was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are *Uncle Silas*, *Carmilla*, and *The House by the Churchyard*. **Source**: [Sheridan Le Fanu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu) on Wikipedia.
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