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What if the thing that follows you is invisible to everyone else?
In Green Tea & Mr. Justice Harbottle, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu brings horror into private lives. Reverend Mr. Jennings, a gentle London clergyman, finds himself followed by a small black monkey with glowing eyes. No one else can see it. Dr. Martin Hesselius listens to his account, seeking answers at the border of mind and spirit.
Mr. Justice Harbottle trusts his rank, wealth, and power. But the cruel judge faces sounds, glimpses, and the growing sense that someone watches him. The memory of Lewis Pyneweck, a man he sentences to death, presses close. Presented as cases from Hesselius's papers, these tales set a good man's torment beside a bad man's fear.
What you’ll discover
- A quiet life invaded Follow Jennings as an unseen presence turns his solitary London life into a source of dread.
- Power shadowed by guilt Watch Harbottle's confidence meet the troubling memory of a man condemned by his own judgment.
- The doctor's searching eye Explore strange cases with Hesselius, whose questions reach across the border between mind and spirit.
- Horror close to home Find fear inside ordinary houses, where private troubles deepen without castles or storms.
- Two sides of haunting Consider whether these terrors come from outside their victims or rise within their minds.
Who will love it
For readers who love chilling ghost stories, Victorian atmosphere, and questions about whether a haunting is outside us or inside us.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A doctor who studies the unseen
- Mr. Jennings and his study of tea
- The small black creature that will not leave
- A judge who made his name by hanging
- Signs, whispers and a pressing dread
- Guilt, the mind and the way Le Fanu tells it
Who’s who
- Dr. Martin HesseliusA German physician who studies the border of mind and spirit and records these cases, seeking to understand the cause of each haunting.
- Reverend Mr. JenningsA gentle, scholarly clergyman in London who is followed by a spectral black monkey and wants to be free of it.
- Lady Mary HeydukeA hostess whose house is where Hesselius first meets Jennings and begins to take an interest in his trouble.
- Mr. Justice HarbottleA harsh, proud eighteenth century judge who has built his name on severe sentences and trusts in his own power.
- Lewis PyneweckA man sentenced by Harbottle whose fate and memory hang over the judge and drive his growing fear.
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Té verde y el juez Harbottle
A spectral black monkey follows Mr. Jennings through London, and he wants to be free of it.
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Green Tea and Mr. Justice Harbottle are two tales by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer who made his name with ghost stories and mysteries.
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A doctor who studies the unseen
Both tales begin with Dr. Martin Hesselius, a German physician who wanders Europe collecting strange medical histories. In Le Fanu's frame, he is dead, and his secretary has gathered his papers. Hesselius does not treat his patients as simple lunatics or as victims of the devil. He believes some people have a thin wall between the visible world and another one, and that illness can break it.
This gives the stories a double edge. A reader can take each haunting as a real visitation. A reader can also take it as a disorder of nerves, drugs, memory or conscience. Le Fanu never forces a choice. Hesselius speaks with the calm of a scientist, and that calm makes the events feel more disturbing, because he treats the impossible as a case to be recorded.
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What is Green Tea by Le Fanu about?
Green Tea tells of a clergyman, Mr. Jennings, who is followed by a spectral monkey after heavy tea drinking during his studies. Dr. Hesselius, a physician of the unseen, studies the case and tries to explain it.
Who is Dr. Martin Hesselius?
Hesselius is a fictional German physician who appears in the frame of In a Glass Darkly. He investigates strange cases at the border of medicine and the supernatural, and the tales are presented as his papers.
Is Mr. Justice Harbottle based on a real judge?
The tale is fiction, set in the eighteenth century, and Harbottle is an invented hanging judge. Some readers see him as echoing the harsh judges of the age, but he is not a portrait of one man.
The author
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1814–1873 · Irish Gothic novelist
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer born in Dublin in 1814. He lived in Ireland and died in Dublin in 1873. He wrote Gothic tales, mystery novels, and ghost stories. His novels include Uncle Silas, published in 1864, and The Wyvern Mystery, published in 1869.
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