Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly
[1790]
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| Cover of 1872 edition |
In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death.The fourth and fifth are long enough to be called novellas. The most well known story is Carmilla, it is a female vampire story set in Styria, Austria. Laura lives in a castle with her father when an unexpected visitor,whom she envisioned, arrives with a carriage.
Carmilla becomes friends with Laura and starts to infest on her. She even has a romantic approach and avoids to say anything about herself. Carmilla's dark past slowly starts to unfold, only to find she belonged to the Karnstein bloodline.
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