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lyndsaybh 's review for:
In a Glass Darkly
by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Obviously some of the five tales were better than others - I most enjoyed the Room in Le Dragon Volant and Carmilla. It can be hard to appreciate how new and groundbreaking these were when first published, as when you read it now it can seem cliched due to how ubiquitous some of the ideas and plotlines have later become - but these are some of the stories that started it all. You can certainly see that this had an influence on Bram Stoker, amongst others. He took the gothic supernatural conventions but from a psychological angle was able to make things new.