Reflections in a Glass Darkly Essays on ]. Sheridan Le Fanu Edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill, and Brian J. Showers Hippocampus Press New York Contents Foreword 9 W.J.MCCORMACK Introduction 11 GARY WILLIAM CRAWFORD, JIM ROCKHILL, AND BRIAN J. SHOWERS I. Some Notes on Biography 15, A Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 17 ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Anecdotes from Seventy Years of Irish Life 26 W. R. LE FANU Extracts from Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu and Others 37 S. M. ELLIS Portraits of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 47 JIM ROCKHILL, BRIAN J. SHOWERS, AND DOUGLAS A. ANDERSON A Void Which Cannot Be Filled Up: Obituaries of J. S. Le Fanu 72 BRIAN J. SHOWERS II. General Studies..... 85 M. R. James on J. S. Le Fanu 87 M. R. JAMES A Forgotten Creator of Ghosts—Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Possible Inspirer of the Brontes 95 EDNA KENTON Sheridan Le Fanu 105 E. F. BENSON From The Supernatural in Fiction 108 PETER PENZOLDT An Irish Ghost 127 V. S. PRITCHETT Excerpts from the "Prologue" and "Epilogue" to Madam Crowl's Ghost.132 M. R. JAMES Concerns 7 Doubles, Shadows, Sedan-Chairs, and the Past: The "Ghost Stories" of J. S. Le Fanu 137 PATRICIA COUGHLAN III. Some Special Topics 161 Making Light in the Shadow Box: The Artistry of Le Fanu 163 KEL ROOP Le Fanu's House by the Marketplace 174 WAYNE HALL Sheridan Le Fanu and the Spirit of 1798 189 ALBERT POWER H. P. Lovecraft's Response to the Work of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ..201 JIM ROCKHILL "A Regular Contributor": Le Fanu's Short Stories, All The Year Round, and the Influence of Dickens 206 SIMON COOKE , A Shared Vision: Le Fanu's In A Glass Darkly and Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr 223 GARY WILLIAM CRAWFORD Dreyer, Vampyr, and Sheridan Le Fanu 232 MARK LE FANU IV. Contemporary Reviews 241 V. Studies of Individual Works 267 "Green Tea": The Archetypal Ghost Story 269 JACK SULLIVAN Introduction to The House by the Church-Yard 287 ELIZABETH BOWEN Three Ghost Stories: "The Judge's House," "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in an Old House in Aungier Street," and "Mr. Justice Harbottle" 293 CAROL A. SENF Introduction to Uncle Silas 309 M.R.JAMES Conversations in a Shadowed Room: The Blank Spaces in "Green Tea" 313 JOHN LANGAN Introduction to Uncle Silas 333 ELIZABETH BOWEN "Addicted to the Supernatural": Spiritualism and Self-Satire in Le Fanu's All in the Dark 346 STEPHEN CARVER 8 REFLECTIONS IN A GLASS DARKLY In the Name of the Mother: Perverse Maternity in "Carmilla" 363 JARLATH KLLLEEN . Crossing Boundaries, Mixing Genres in The Wyvem Mystery 385 SALLY C. HARRIS "I Resolved To Play the Part of a Good Samaritan": Metafiction in "The Room in the Dragon Volant" 402 WILLIAM HUGHES "The Chiid That Went with the Fairies": The Folk Tale and the Ghost Story .....418 PETER BELL The "Smashed Looking-Glass": Fragmentation and Narrative Perversity, in Willing to Die ; 429 VICTOR SAGE Bibliography . ....447 Sources 456- Biographical Notes 460 Index 467 .