This edition is printed on premum acid-free paper. Frightening, entertaining, and hauntingly romantic, Le Fanu's Gothic adventure remains a classic of vampire literature. To save her, Laura's father must battle the cunning and evil vampire for her life and soul. Before long Laura's health declines and she is haunted by nightmares as she becomes the latest victim of the vampire Carmilla. The novella is one of five tales of the supernatural that is published under the name of. Laura longs for a friend her own age and, not coincidentally, a carriage accident brings the lovely and seemingly young Carmilla to Laura's home. Written in 1872, Carmilla is one of the classics of the Vampire genre. The central character is Laura, a teenager living alone with her retired father in lonely castle in the forests of Austria. Hesselius, a medical doctor who investigates occult phenomenon. "Carmilla" is told from the perspective of a case study by Dr. Le Fanu's story has been widely influential and is notable for its depiction of homosexual desire between the female vampire and her beautiful, young victims. His haunting and surprisingly modern "Carmilla" was one of the first works in the vampire fiction genre and was written decades before the publication of Bram Stroker's "Dracula" in 1897. Joyceann Ann Sheridan, Joyce A Sheridan, Joyceann A Sheridan. "Carmilla" is the 1872 Gothic vampire novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a leading writer of ghost tales and horror fiction of the Victorian era.
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