Carmilla

Name: Carmilla
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN: 9798368949994

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrator: Mary-Anne Dickinson

Unabridged: 3 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Jeffries-Prendergast-Underhill

Published: 06/02/2023

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Gothic

Synopsis

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion.But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance. Although Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect from a writer of his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story.

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