Language: en
Published in: 1871
Subject(s): Short Fiction - Horror - Sexuality - Gothic
Source: http://gutenberg.org
Copyright: Public Domain
"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.
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. In most cases, they are reanimated corpses who feed by...
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on May 28, 2008 at 03:35
You will figure out who the vampire is long before the heroine does, but the mystery of how the story ends will keep you reading until the end. It's great fun.
on May 22, 2008 at 19:59
By far my favorite vampire novel, this is an excellent story! It's amazing that so long before Anne Rice we have a vampire character we can actually identify with.