In a Glass Darkly

Le Fanu was attracted by the occult and was referred to as ""The Invisible Prince"" in nineteenth-century Dublin because of his solitary and nocturnal lifestyle. His works incorporate Irish mythology Gothic heritage as well as the social and political unease of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries. The stories explore sometimes illogical terrors but instead of emphasizing the origin or function of the visitor they concentrate on the disquiet of the disturbed men and women who come into contact with the otherworldly. Reading this sends shivers down your spine. Each story therefore develops the air of mystery that constitutes the supernatural experience by evoking in the reader the same dubious dread that the protagonist feels.