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A review by dknippling
In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
4.0
I continue to really dig on Le Fanu. This is one of those story collections where you start trying to count the levels of storytelling and eventually give up.
--The nephew tells the story of the papers that
--The occult medical doctor writes up as his cases, but mostly he just writes in introductory paragraph that notes the provenance of the text, which comes from
--A person with experience of the case who is writing from a perspective years later, and includes in their memoirs
--A story they heard from another character in the narrative, who is only repeating
--A tale they heard from yet another character, who also
--Heard rumors from the locals.
Includes Camilla.
--The nephew tells the story of the papers that
--The occult medical doctor writes up as his cases, but mostly he just writes in introductory paragraph that notes the provenance of the text, which comes from
--A person with experience of the case who is writing from a perspective years later, and includes in their memoirs
--A story they heard from another character in the narrative, who is only repeating
--A tale they heard from yet another character, who also
--Heard rumors from the locals.
Includes Camilla.