5/24/2023 0 Comments Le fanu in a glass darklyIt turns out the Doctor has a strong belief in the occult, and in this time period provided an unusually sympathetic ear to those with diabolic tales of terror.Īn English clergyman named Jennings confides to Hesselius that he is being followed by a demon in the form of an ethereal monkey, invisible to everyone else, which is trying to invade his mind and destroy his life. The book contains five stories all based around the posthumous papers of Dr. (I guess you know where our priorities are.) Everyone knows that Victorian Gothic horror is best read after midnight anyway. The only way I can get back to sleep is to sit and read in the antique rocking chair, under the glass balled chandelier, in what was once my dining area, but has been converted to a reading nook. I go through restless sleeping patterns that wake me up sometime between 1:30 and 2:30AM. I read this book predominately in the middle of the night. When not reading the book I kept the book facing down. Every time my eyes inadvertently met his gaze I felt like I was being mesmerized. I read the Folio Society edition of this book and that red-eyed demon monkey was on the front cover. "What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on but, still, we are madmen all the same."
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