Explore the eerie case of Émilie Sagée and the rich doppelganger theme in Victorian literature, from Poe to Stephen King, revealing truths about identity and duality.
thanks so much for this fantastic article on what wiki deems (in your lead case) the ability of bilocation. Reading the survey made me consider what you might think of J.S. Le Fanu's An Account of Some Strange Disturbances on Aungier Street, in which the narrator and his cousin haev an ambiguously narrated psychical aspect to the same haunted-house events, so that we are left confused as to whether the one has seen the other in some vivid misapprehension, or perhaps their minds merge at some point.
anyway, thanks again for this, and keep up the great work!
Thank you for this great comment, Chris! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'll make sure I check that story out, I'm sure I'll have it in one of my Le Fanu books
You are very welcome! Enjoy the read, or, if you enjoy a good listen, here is an audio version by the English voice actor Simon Stanhope of Bitesized Audio, one of my favorite narrators. He has built up a formidable library of Victorian and Edwardian tales that I have cited here and there in my own stack.
This is such a good rabbit hole. See you in the warren!
The Dark Histories Podcast has an old episode about the Sagee case which is a good place to start 😆
excellent thank you
thanks so much for this fantastic article on what wiki deems (in your lead case) the ability of bilocation. Reading the survey made me consider what you might think of J.S. Le Fanu's An Account of Some Strange Disturbances on Aungier Street, in which the narrator and his cousin haev an ambiguously narrated psychical aspect to the same haunted-house events, so that we are left confused as to whether the one has seen the other in some vivid misapprehension, or perhaps their minds merge at some point.
anyway, thanks again for this, and keep up the great work!
Thank you for this great comment, Chris! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'll make sure I check that story out, I'm sure I'll have it in one of my Le Fanu books
You are very welcome! Enjoy the read, or, if you enjoy a good listen, here is an audio version by the English voice actor Simon Stanhope of Bitesized Audio, one of my favorite narrators. He has built up a formidable library of Victorian and Edwardian tales that I have cited here and there in my own stack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAwusp7OYRU&
Superb, I've listened to a lot of his narrations on his channel, and Horrorbabble as well!
This is very interesting, I hadn’t thought of all the ways this theme could be used, it’s a lot more versatile than I realized.
Thank you, happy you found it informative
Fascinating essay! I never knew about the Sagee case but I'm for sure going to look into it more. Awesome job on this!
Thank you 😁 The Sagee case is really creepy isn't it 😅