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by: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781843500728
ISBN: 1843500728
Label: Soft Editions
Manufacturer: Soft Editions
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 108
Publication Date: October 30, 2003
Publisher: Soft Editions
Sales Rank: 449500
Studio: Soft Editions
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Living a lonely existence in a remote schloss in Styria, on the border of Austria and Hungary, Laura and her father play host to an unexpected guest, the beautiful young Carmilla. Her arrival is closely followed by an outbreak of unexplained deaths in the area, while the young women's growing friendship coincides with a series of nightmares and mysterious nocturnal visitations, and a gradual downward spiral in Laura's health. A chilling tale of the un-dead, Carmilla is a beautifully written example of the gothic genre. Believed to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece 'Dracula', written over twenty years later, Carmilla stands out as an all-time horror classic.
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Rating:  - A good read.
This was one of the first vampire stories, so it's not exactly CSI. You know what's going on pretty quick, but it's still well done. I'd read it again.
Rating:  - BEFORE DRACULA THERE WAS CARMILLA
J. Sheridan LeFanu's "Carmilla" stands as one of the richest, most literate and most enduring stories in the history of the vampire sub-genre. Many rate it higher than Bram Stoker's "Dracula," and while that estimation is at least debatable, there is no debate that "Carmilla" has exerted a mighty influence, consciously or not, on most vampire fiction to follow in its wake, "Dracula" not excepted. Indeed, Stoker's original early chapter in his masterpiece, later published independently as "Dracula's ... Read More
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