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In a Glass Darkly Volume 2: The Room in The Dragon Volant

Author
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Series
Gothic Library
Language
English
Length
110 pages
ISBN
9781911429449
Published
15 May 2016
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Gothic
  • vampire
  • occult
  • paranormal
  • ghost
  • lesbian
  • sexuality
  • sleepwalk
  • mystery

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In Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella In a Glass Darkly: The Room in The Dragon Volant, the author employs a variety of narrative techniques to explore themes of love, loss, and redemption. Through the utilization of psychological realism and gothic elements such as spectral apparitions, Le Fanu presents an allegorical study of female agency within a patriarchal society.

Author

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish master of Gothic fiction whose spectral tales raised the ghost story to a literary art. Carmilla preceded Dracula by a quarter-century and helped define vampire fiction; Uncle Silas sealed the locked-room inheritance thriller.

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