Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. No less an authority than M.R. James described Le Fanu as “absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories”—but he was far more than that. His short novel Carmilla is an early tale of vampirism, and it has lesbian elements as well, making it o...

“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.”Living alone with her father in an old Austrian castle, teenage Laura longs for a companion her age. When a carriage accident happens right in front of their home, a young lady is left in their care – someone that Laura recognizes from a dream twelve ye...

"Carmilla" is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. "Carmilla" predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years and has been adapted many times for cinema.

Before Dracula, there was Carmilla—the first seductive vampire to haunt readers' imaginationsThis classic of Gothic horror follows Laura, a woman haunted by a girlhood dream of a beautiful visitor to her bedroom. Now, a decade later, Laura finds Carmilla, who appears to be her own age, on the side of the road after a carriage accident. The two recognize each other from the same childhood dream and become fast friends. Soon after, Laura begins to experience mysteriou...

Nuestra protagonista es la joven Laura, que lleva una vida sin sobresaltos en un antiguo castillo de la remota Estiria. Su día a día, bastante anodino, transcurre en compañía de su cariñoso padre y de dos damas de compañía. Lo único digno de mención en la vida de esta muchacha es un inquietante sueño que tuvo de niña y que jamás pudo olvidar. Cuando la aparición de dicho sueño cobra vida en la hermosa y enigmática Carmilla, huésped inesperada del castillo, Laura experimenta un despertar ca...

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Also this story predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema.It was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in late 1871 and early 1872 and then in the author’s collection of short stories In a Glass Darkly in the latter year.There were two i...

***WINNER OF THE 2023 BRAM STOKER AWARD - Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel*Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA.Inspired by the gothic novel that started the vampire genre and layered with dark Chinese folklore, this queer, feminist murder mystery graphic novel is a tale of identity, obsession and fateful family secrets.**At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discover...

La protagonista, Laura, narra cómo su vida pasa de común a desconcertante y espantosa cuando aparece Carmilla, una hermosa joven que resulta ser un vampiro. Al transcurrir la historia Carmilla comienza a mostrar un comportamiento bastante romántico hacia la otra joven.

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSOUna misteriosa e affascinante fanciulla dal nome Carmilla viene affidata dalla madre alle cure di Laura e del ricco padre, nel loro antico castello in Stiria, isolato e immerso in un paesaggio incantato. Tutti nel castello rimangono affascinati dalla straordinaria bellezza della giovane, ma le sue abitudini insolite e il comportamento enigmatico cominceranno presto a suscitare curiosità e inquietudine.Nel frattempo, un morbo scon...

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever. One of the most hugely influential vampire stories of all time, Le Fanu's Carmilla was written before Bram Stoker's Dracula. A true gothic novel, it is eery, rich in character and place and bathed in blood and moonlight. When a mysterious carriage crashes outside their castle home in Styria, Austria, Laura and her father agree to take in its injured passenger, a young woman named Carmilla. Delighted to have some company of her ow...

“To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door.”Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship—until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and ...

This was the very first vampire thriller, eventually becoming inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, as well classics by Robert Louis Stevenson. In this tale of blood and terror, pure innocence becomes the target of age-old evil. Virtuous Laura has grown up in a solitary castle and longs for a close friend. Her wish seems granted with the arrival of a beautiful and mysterious stranger named Carmilla. A friendship develops between them, but the brooding mood and sexual overtones ma...