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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
laefe's review against another edition
3.0
Trattasi di una raccolta di racconti "del terrore" (ma dai?), di cui in realtà mi ha appassionato dall'inizio alla fine solo l'ultimo, "Carmilla". Degli altri invece di solito mi piaceva l'inizio, o qualche scena, ma mai tutto, e mai la fine, che lascia per strada l'atmosfera mistica e la tensione per fare una mini cronaca fredda degli avvenimenti.
_wandering_thoughts_'s review against another edition
4.0
Good stories if you read them to understand Victorian English anxieties. There's casual racism, homophobia, sexism, condemnation of women for being pretty, and a lot of potential to analyse dreams and doubles. They're well written representations of their time and the problematic imagery and fears running rampant in Victorian England and Ireland.
spookynorvegan's review against another edition
4.0
An absolute must-read for any lover of gothic literature.
segoy's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this quite a bit - each story has a unique structure and angle to it, the atmosphere is excellent, and there are some surprisingly ahead of its time (or at least atypical to my understanding of the victorian era) twists and ideas - a fun read.
dknippling's review against another edition
4.0
I continue to really dig on Le Fanu. This is one of those story collections where you start trying to count the levels of storytelling and eventually give up.
--The nephew tells the story of the papers that
--The occult medical doctor writes up as his cases, but mostly he just writes in introductory paragraph that notes the provenance of the text, which comes from
--A person with experience of the case who is writing from a perspective years later, and includes in their memoirs
--A story they heard from another character in the narrative, who is only repeating
--A tale they heard from yet another character, who also
--Heard rumors from the locals.
Includes Camilla.
--The nephew tells the story of the papers that
--The occult medical doctor writes up as his cases, but mostly he just writes in introductory paragraph that notes the provenance of the text, which comes from
--A person with experience of the case who is writing from a perspective years later, and includes in their memoirs
--A story they heard from another character in the narrative, who is only repeating
--A tale they heard from yet another character, who also
--Heard rumors from the locals.
Includes Camilla.
nostalgia_reader's review against another edition
4.0
3.4 star average over all the stories, but without a doubt needs to be rounded up to 4 stars.
Le Fanu is a master of psychological horror, supernatural, and legitimately suspenseful terrifying reads. Although he can be very overly-wordy for no real reason, it's worth the focus to read these stories.
Green Tea: 3 stars. Legitimately disturbing and extremely accurate in regards to how anxiety and paranoia was portrayed.
The Familiar: 3 stars. Fairly similar to Green Tea, but a little more forgettable.
Mr. Justice Harbottle: 2.5 stars. Boring as all get out (and again, awfully similar to the previous two stories), but I love me some surreal British courtroom hallucinations.
The Room in the Dragon Volant: 5 STARS. ALL THE STARS. I LOVE THIS STORY. JUST... ALL THE STARS.
Carmilla: 3.5 stars. Sort of slow in parts, but much better than Dracula in its portrayal of vampires and much more original.
Le Fanu is a master of psychological horror, supernatural, and legitimately suspenseful terrifying reads. Although he can be very overly-wordy for no real reason, it's worth the focus to read these stories.
Green Tea: 3 stars. Legitimately disturbing and extremely accurate in regards to how anxiety and paranoia was portrayed.
The Familiar: 3 stars. Fairly similar to Green Tea, but a little more forgettable.
Mr. Justice Harbottle: 2.5 stars. Boring as all get out (and again, awfully similar to the previous two stories), but I love me some surreal British courtroom hallucinations.
The Room in the Dragon Volant: 5 STARS. ALL THE STARS. I LOVE THIS STORY. JUST... ALL THE STARS.
Carmilla: 3.5 stars. Sort of slow in parts, but much better than Dracula in its portrayal of vampires and much more original.
rhiannonmay's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
pajamafish's review against another edition
None of the stories are bad, but Carmilla is still the best
francisforever123's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Complicated
- Loveable characters? Complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Complicated
3.0
superstine's review against another edition
3.0
Ah, 1800tallet. Mye mer underholdende enn jeg forventet, lesbiske vampyrer og demoner i apeform.