Demons, vengeful spirits, insanity, premature burials and lesbian vampires, In a Cup Darkly contains five diabolical stories of horror and secret that may get the heart racing. Each tale, including the popular ‘Green Tea’ and ‘Carmilla’, is presented as a case through the posthumous papers of Dr Martin Hesselius, a metaphysical doctor who does not have any doubt as to the existence of supernatural phenomena – unlike our anxious protagonists… These traditional, yet unfamiliar tales were revered upon discharge, with Bram Stoker writing his own vampire story some twenty years later on, and Henry Adam once suggesting that is usually ‘the ideal reading… for the hours after midnight’.