In a glass darkly
(Adult Book)

This ed. originally published: 1993

Includes bibliographical references

These five stories are told by Dr Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. Le Fanu drew on the Gothic tradition, Irish folklore and on contemporary social and political anxieties.