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Carmilla

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First published: 1872
Pages: 89

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Prologue
2:25
An Early Fright
14:52
A Guest
22:13
We Compare Notes
23:06
Her Habits -- A Saunter
37:27
A Wonderful Likeness
12:55
A Very Strange Agony
15:05
Descending
20:18
Search
12:23
The Doctor
17:03
Bereaved
10:09
The Story
15:05
A Petition
15:24
The Woodman
16:43
The Meeting
16:46
Ordeal and Execution
13:03
Conclusion
13:44

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About this book

Le Fanu's novella arrived in 1872, twenty five years ahead of Dracula, and it set most of the rules that vampire fiction has followed since. Laura lives with her father in a lonely castle in Styria, starved of company, until a carriage overturns at their gate and leaves a beautiful guest named Carmilla in their care. The friendship that follows is ardent, possessive and openly romantic, and Laura cannot decide whether she is flattered or frightened by it. Meanwhile village girls sicken and die, Laura's own health fades, and her dreams fill with something moving in the dark. The horror stays close to tenderness, which is why the story still unsettles.

Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #10007. The PDF has 89 pages; the EPUB is reflowable. Project Gutenberg credits and license are kept.

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish novelist and journalist celebrated for his Gothic mysteries and ghost stories. Writing from Dublin, where he ran several newspapers, he became the defining supernatural author of Victorian Ireland and a formative influence on Bram Stoker and M. R. James.