Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1 hr 38 min read

A gentle clergyman confides to the occult doctor Martin Hesselius that he is haunted, pursued everywhere by a small, spectral, malignant monkey with glowing red eyes.

Sheridan Le Fanu's classic 1872 tales, from 'In a Glass Darkly,' are masterpieces of Victorian supernatural horror, subtle, psychological, and deeply unnerving. Refined, dreadful, hugely influential. Read it for two of the finest ghost stories ever written, from a titan of the genre.

In its time

Published in 1872, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

1 hr 38 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).