The Book of Doppelgangers

Publisher Marketing: The face in the mirror is yours, but ever so slightly different. A shadow haunts your house, but it walks in places you've never gone. You grew up with a boy who had your face and your name, except he always did everything right, while you never could. Evil twins, double images: these are the tales of the Doppelganger: eight outre tales of the doubly weird by J. Sheridan LeFanu, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Hans Christian Andersen, Henry James, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Review Citations: Library Journal 07/01/2003 pg. 127 (EAN 9781592249503, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Sterling, Robert Robert Sterling editor for the underground Internet magazine Konformist.com, lives in Los Angeles. Paul Krassner lives in Desert Hot Springs, CA. Contributor Bio:  Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin, the great-nephew of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His novels and many short stories were precursors to modern occult tales. Contributor Bio:  Blackwood, Algernon Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels The Centaur, which climaxes with a traveller's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon and its sequel The Bright Messenger, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness.