Carmilla

Published in 1872 — a full 25 years before Dracula — Carmilla is the gothic vampire novella that started it all. Sheridan Le Fanu's story follows Laura, a young woman living in an isolated castle in Styria, Austria, who befriends a mysterious and beautiful young woman named Carmilla after a carriage accident. But strange things begin to happen: Laura suffers terrible dreams, falls mysteriously ill, and local women start dying. Carmilla is eerie, dreamlike and deeply atmospheric — a landmark of vampire fiction and one of the finest works of gothic horror ever written. Bram Stoker is known to have read it before writing Dracula.

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