In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "e;through a glass darkly."e; The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Gre...