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Adamant Media Corporation, 2000-06-23. Paperback. Good.
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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." The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Green Tea a clergyman is being driven mad by an evil demon that takes the ephemeral form of a monkey, but is unseen by others as it burdens the victim's mind with psychological torment. In The Familiar, revised from Le Fanu's The Watcher of 1851, a sea captain is stalked by a dwarf, "The Watcher." Is this strange character from captain's past? In Mr Justice Harbottle a merciless court judge is attacked by vengeful spirits, dreaming he is sentenced to death by a horrific version of himself. The story was revised from 1853's An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street. In The Room in the Dragon Volant, a notable mystery which includes a premature burial theme, an innocent young Englishman in France tries to rescue a mysterious countess from her unbearable situation. Lastly, Carmilla tells the tale of a lesbian vampire. It was a huge influence on Bram Stoker's writing of Dracula and the basis for the films Vampyr in 1932 and The Vampire Lovers in 1970.
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- Título In a Glass Darkly
- Autor Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Editorial Adamant Media Corporation
- Fecha de publicación June 23, 2000
- ISBN 9781402199387
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In a Glass Darkly
de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Usado
- good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Usado - Good
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781402199387 / 1402199384
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- 1
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