The Doctor

As Carmilla would not hear of an attendant sleeping in her room, my father arranged that a servant should sleep outside her door, so that she could not attempt to make another such excursion without being arrested at her own door. That night passed quietly;...

A Guest

I am now going to tell you something so strange that it will require all your faith in my veracity to believe my story. It is not only true, nevertheless, but truth of which I have been an eye-witness. It was a sweet summer evening,...

Lewis Pyneweck

In the meantime, the footman dispatched in pursuit of Mr Peters speedily overtook that feeble gentleman. The old man stopped when he heard the sound of pursuing steps, but any alarms that may have crossed his mind seemed to disappear on his recognizing the livery....

Prologue

On this case, Doctor Hesselius has inscribed nothing more than the words, ‘Harman’s Report’, and a simple reference to his own extraordinary Essay on ‘the Interior Sense, and the Conditions of the opening thereof’. The reference is to Vol. I. Section 317, Note Za...

The Watcher

Mr Barton was next morning sitting at a late breakfast, reflecting upon the incidents of the previous night, with more of inquisitiveness than awe, so speedily do gloomy impressions upon the fancy disappear under the cheerful influence of day, when a letter just delivered by...

Conclusion. A Word For Those Who Suffer

My dear Van L——, you have suffered from an affection similar to that which I have just described. You twice complained of a return of it. Who, under God, cured you? Your humble servant, Martin Hesselius. Let me rather adopt the more emphasized piety of...

Home

I made him have candles lighted, and saw the room looking cheery and inhabited before I left him. I told him that he must regard his illness strictly as one dependent on physical, though subtle physical, causes. I told him that he had...

The Third Stage

‘I see, Dr Hesselius, that you don’t lose one word of my statement. I need not ask you to listen specially to what I am now going to tell you. They talk of the optic nerves, and of spectral illusions, as if the organ of...

The Second Stage

‘It was with me, and the malice which before was torpid under a sullen exterior, was now active. It was perfectly unchanged in every other respect. This new energy was apparent in its activity and its looks, and soon in other ways. ‘For a time,...

The Doctor Questions Lady Mary, And She Answers

‘I like your vicar* so much, Lady Mary,’ said I, so soon as he was gone. ‘He has read, travelled, and thought, and having also suffered, he ought to be an accomplished companion.’ ‘So he is, and, better still, he is a really good...