In a Glass Darkly
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In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five stories by the Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third stories are revised versions of previou
Illustration of Carmilla from The Dark Blue by David Henry Friston, 1872.
Carmilla
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Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. A foundational work of English-language vampire literature, it predated Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years. First published a
In a Glass Darkly
…The Room in the Dragon Volant is about an Englishman who gets caught up in a dangerous mystery involving a woman and a haunted room in France. Finally, Carmilla is one of the earliest known works of vampire literature, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 25 years. The book's title is an allusion to 1…
Illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Le Fanu's story Carmilla in "The Dark Blue" (January 1872), electrotype after wood-engraving, reproduced in Best Ghost Stories, ed. Bleiler.
Riegersburg Castle, Styria, suggested as a possible inspiration for Laura's Schloss.
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