Alyres' belong to a gang of murderous thieves who bury their victims alive, having first paralysed them with a mysterious drug. In the denouement it is revealed that the 'St. A naïve young Englishman traveling in France attempts to save a beautiful and mysterious woman whom he is duped into believing to be the unhappily-married wife of the avaricious and sexagenarian count of St. Not a ghost story but a notable mystery story, in 26 chapters, which includes the themes of drug-induced catalepsy and premature burial. The story is set between 17 and is retold by a Londoner, called Anthony Harman, from the account related in letters by an elderly friend. A cruel judge in the Court of Common Pleas, Elijah Harbottle, finds himself under attack by vengeful spirits, and in a disturbing dream he is condemned to death by a monstrous doppelgänger.
He starts to hear accusatory voices all about him and eventually his fears solidify in the form of a sinister bird, a pet owl owned by his fiancée, Miss Montague.Ī revised version of "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street" (1853).
A sea captain, living in Dublin, is stalked by "The Watcher", a strange dwarf who resembles a person from his past. Emanuel Swedenborg's book Arcana Cœlestia (1749) is cited on the power of demons.Ī revised version of "The Watcher" (1851). The title refers to Hesselius' belief that green tea was what unsealed Jennings's "inner eye" and led to the haunting. Hesselius writes letters to a Dutch colleague about the victim's condition, which gets steadily worse with time as the creature steps up its methods, all of which are purely psychological. Martin Hesselius.Īn English clergyman named Jennings confides to Hesselius that he is being followed by a demon in the form of an ethereal monkey, invisible to everyone else, which is trying to invade his mind and destroy his life. The stories, which belong to the Gothic horror and mystery genres, are presented as selections from the posthumous papers of the occult detective Dr. The title is taken from 1 Corinthians 13:12, a deliberate misquotation of the passage which describes humanity as perceiving the world "through a glass, darkly". The first three stories are short stories, and the fourth and fifth are long enough to be called novellas (the fourth is over 44,500 words long, and the fifth is over 27,500 words long).
The second and third stories are revised versions of previously published stories. In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death.
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