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In Victorian Supernatural fiction we see ourselves ‘in a glass darkly’. ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am known’1 Cor. 12 The above is quoted from the scripture of St Paul, and appropriated or indeed somewhat misappropriated by Sheridan Le Fanu as the title for his collection of five short tales published in 1872 under the title ‘In a Glass Darkly’. The original quote, like most things written in scripture, is a somewhat ambiguous statement; in the generally accepted meaning, however it is taken as a reference to looking through a window pane, in a somewhat cloudy manner seeing only glimpses of that which is spiritual or indeed heavenly as analogy to life on earth. The inference being that upon arriving into the lord’s arms in heaven, the vision will become clear. As Robert Tracy notes in his excellent introduction to the Oxford world’s classics edition of ‘In a Glass Darkly’, Le Fenu was the son of a clergyman and raised in a very religious household and therefore would not have occasion to ‘misquote scripture lightly’ . The ‘glass’ of Le Fanu’s is believed a mirror in which ‘darkly’ viewed we see a darker