For today's countdown to Halloween's reading suggestion: In A Glass
Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu. It contains a few short stories and novella,
all but one are horror stories. It also has its most famous work,
Carmilla. Aka that story with a lesbian vampire, which I blogged about recently. A story now in the
shadow of a far more famous vampire. While I prefer Dracula as a novel
and a vampire story, Le Fanu's creation stands on her own and so does
his writing, which has never been surpassed or erased by Bram Stoker,
who in the end was a one hit wonder. Carmilla is a deliciously creepy
tale of infatuation in an exotic setting, with just enough blood and
violence, but the other stories should not be neglected. Green Tea is
maybe my favourite, where a clergyman is haunted by a demonic monkey,
which may be an hallucination caused by an excessive drinking of green
tea. I'm not making it up. It's classic Gothic horror at its best.
Wednesday 16 October 2024
In a Glass Darkly
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I'm knocking off the green tea immediately.
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