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kmhst25 's review for:
In a Glass Darkly
by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
This book has five stories: one is great, two are good, one is good but silly, and one is so-so.
My favorite thing about classic horror is that there are no rules—anything can be scary; weird phenomena can be caused by anything; the genre simply did not have the framework it has today. As such, Le Fanu has met my expectations with at least one truly out of left field, completely off-the-wall theory of the scary and the unknown. That being said, these stories won’t be scary to a modern reader; they’re simply fun and vaguely spooky.
My favorite thing about classic horror is that there are no rules—anything can be scary; weird phenomena can be caused by anything; the genre simply did not have the framework it has today. As such, Le Fanu has met my expectations with at least one truly out of left field, completely off-the-wall theory of the scary and the unknown. That being said, these stories won’t be scary to a modern reader; they’re simply fun and vaguely spooky.