"... in the gloom of an autumnal evening, I caught my own face and figure reflected in all the mirrors, which showed only a mysterious background in the dim light of the many candles which failed to illuminate the great proportions of the half-furnished salon,...(...) I trembled in silence at the fantastic figures and shapes which my imagination called up as peopling the background of those gloomy mirrors."

The Grey Woman, in Tales of Mystery and the Macabre, Elizabeth Gaskell