The Watcher: (Aberdeen Classics Collection) And Other Weird Stories
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798674334750
- Series
- The Watcher
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-23
- Author
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Description
It is now more than fifty years since the occurrences which I am about to relate caused a strange sensation in the gay society of Dublin. The fashionable world, however, is no recorder of traditions; the memory of selfishness seldom reaches far; and the events which occasionally disturb the polite monotony of its pleasant and heartless progress, however stamped with the characters of misery and horror, scarcely outlive the gossip of a season, and except, perhaps, in the remembrance of a few more directly interested in the consequences of the catastrophe are in a little time lost to the recollection of all. The appetite for scandal, or for horror, has been sated; the incident can yield no more of interest or novelty; curiosity, frustrated by impenetrable mystery, gives over the pursuit in despair; the tale has ceased to be new, grows stale and flat; and so, in a few years, inquiry subsides into indifference.
