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"Devereux's Dream" is a supernatural mystery by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, published in 1853. The novel follows the titular character, Edward Devereux, who confronts his own past and emerging fears through a series of haunting dreams. As Devereux navigates his nightmares, he becomes entwined in a web of intrigue, love, and spectral encounters, exploring themes of memory, identity, and the uncanny. Le Fanu's atmospheric prose and psychological depth make this work a notable example of Victorian Gothic fiction.

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him, with the knife in my hand that was stained with her blood.

"The great yellow face, ashen now in its mortal agony, looked silently
up at me--for three or four awful seconds; and then--then it
disappeared.

"Bah!" Paul concluded, "that was the end of it."
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