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This is a collection of tales of the supernatural, where patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are drugged into a state of living death. The doctor usually explains such phenomena in terms of psychopathology, but the author is ambivalent to such theories.
`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight'
Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was fascinated by the occult. His writings draw on the Gothic tradition, elements of Irish folklore, and even on the social and political anxieties of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries. In exploring sometimes inexplicable terrors, the tales focus on the unease of the haunted men and
women who encounter the supernatural, rather than on the origin or purpose of the visitant. This makes for spine-chilling reading.
The five stories presented here have been collected by Dr Hesselius, a `metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
發表於2024-12-23
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也許是我少見多怪...我一直以為偵探作傢是頂不迷信的 其實隻看瞭開頭與結尾,我喜歡飛行員與美貌女的配對。 額誰看瞭The Red Notebook? 人生之中詭異的巧閤不停發生,有時我覺得是martix機器故障瞭..
評分也許是我少見多怪...我一直以為偵探作傢是頂不迷信的 其實隻看瞭開頭與結尾,我喜歡飛行員與美貌女的配對。 額誰看瞭The Red Notebook? 人生之中詭異的巧閤不停發生,有時我覺得是martix機器故障瞭..
評分也許是我少見多怪...我一直以為偵探作傢是頂不迷信的 其實隻看瞭開頭與結尾,我喜歡飛行員與美貌女的配對。 額誰看瞭The Red Notebook? 人生之中詭異的巧閤不停發生,有時我覺得是martix機器故障瞭..
評分也許是我少見多怪...我一直以為偵探作傢是頂不迷信的 其實隻看瞭開頭與結尾,我喜歡飛行員與美貌女的配對。 額誰看瞭The Red Notebook? 人生之中詭異的巧閤不停發生,有時我覺得是martix機器故障瞭..
評分也許是我少見多怪...我一直以為偵探作傢是頂不迷信的 其實隻看瞭開頭與結尾,我喜歡飛行員與美貌女的配對。 額誰看瞭The Red Notebook? 人生之中詭異的巧閤不停發生,有時我覺得是martix機器故障瞭..
圖書標籤: Gothic
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評分文字遊戲、民俗取材、女同性戀、對神秘案件的“科學”解答,非常具有時髦感的哥特小說集。
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評分`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' ... 手動再見...
評分文字遊戲、民俗取材、女同性戀、對神秘案件的“科學”解答,非常具有時髦感的哥特小說集。
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