Review of “Our Neighbour by David Copperfield” (1978)
Gene Wolfe (writer).
Read in 2025.
Read in the collection Endangered Species (1989).
A lifelessly quaint mystery of mesmerism. It’s fan fiction for Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850), but it reminds me much more of Edgar Allan Poe’s contemporary stories on the subject, which are more imaginative.