Carmilla

Name: Carmilla
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN: 9798823406390

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrator: Michael Ward

Unabridged: 3 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Author's Republic

Published: 09/12/2022

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Horror

Synopsis

A Gothic Horror of the Vampire, predating Dracula by some 26 years. Carmilla is a tale of creeping horror, narrated by a young girl, who finds herself beset by a mysterious illness, that her newfound and mysterious friend, Carmilla surely can't have anything to do with...

Considered one of the founding works within the Vampire genre, its influence can be found throughout popular horror fiction and other media.

Written by Sheridan Le Fanu and narrated by Michael Ward.

About Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu
(1814â€“1873), born in Dublin, established himself as a journalist and writer of
fiction and became one of the best-selling authors of the 1860â€“80s. His
sinister and supernatural tales are the precursors of the modern ghost story
and inspired such authors as Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jesse on April 10, 2009

In many ways the antithesis of Dracula, and if Stoker's novel disappointed me with its clean-cut, heterosexual male-influenced dichotomies, than le Fanu's novella is the flipside of the coin: female-centric, homoerotic, ambiguous and enigmatic (and all in about a quarter of the length!). Here the va......more

Goodreads review by emma on August 24, 2024

A sapphic vampire story published decades before Dracula???? I love classics. This is beautifully written and gay and there's a vampire. Also it's like 100 pages long. What more could you want. Bottom line: And they say the perfect book doesn't exist.......more

Goodreads review by luchi on August 17, 2023

so what if she killed a few people? let women have hobbies......more

Goodreads review by persephone ☾ on February 08, 2022

So what if she’s the devil ? At least the devil has a job. At least she’s active in the community. What do you do ? 🙄 our original queer coded hot villain🙇‍♀️......more

Goodreads review by Meave on April 21, 2011

Poor Carmilla. I guess there are only so many isolated noblemen's daughters you can devour before they start talking.......more