By coincidence I have just finished JDC's "The Three Coffins" (AKA "The Hollow Man") [0], written in 1935, where at one point one of the characters break the fo

By coincidence I have just finished JDC's "The Three Coffins" (AKA "The Hollow Man") [0], written in 1935, where at one point one of the characters break the fourth wall. He talks directly to the reader and laments that in the end the reader will be disappointed in the solution. Which I was, slightly. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Man_(Carr_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Man_(Carr_novel)