Oddity of the Week: All in the Dark

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Making Mock of the Spirits

Cover of Le Fanu's book 'All in the Dark'

He invented Carmilla the vampire, long before the world heard of Dracula. He scared the socks off Victorians. But Sheridan Le Fanu could laugh at it all, too – as he demonstrated in his 1866 novel All in the Dark, a satirical look at spiritism.

If you'd like to read it, you can find it on archive.org. After all, it is October.

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