by Sheridan Le Fanu · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780199537983
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«In a Glass Darkly» is Sheridan Le Fanu's collection of Gothic tales, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (384 pages, in English).
The volume brings together five supernatural horror stories, presented as cases investigated by Dr. Hesselius, a physician interested in the metaphysical. The tales are set in the nineteenth century and combine the Gothic tradition, Irish folklore, and the social anxieties of the era, achieving a climate of unease and mystery.
It is part of the Oxford World's Classics series, with an annotated edition that includes an introduction and notes. The work was originally published in 1872.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, journalist and newspaper proprietor. Le Fanu is considered by literary critics to be among the greatest ghost story writers of the Victorian era, as several of his works were central to the development of the genre. He was the author of Gothic short stories and macabre poems, novels such as Uncle Silas (1864), and the collection of five stories In a Glass Darkly (1872), in which the novella Carmilla (1872) is significant as a foundational work of vampire literature.
