Carmilla

Name: Carmilla
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
ISBN: 9781094231044

Author: Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

Narrator: Don Gentry

Unabridged: 2 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Yashiki Audio

Published: 01/19/2020

Categories: Fiction, Gothic

Synopsis

‘Carmilla’ is an 1872 Gothic novella by the Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years, it is also one of the earliest works of vampire fiction. The story is narrated as part of the casebook of Dr Hesselius, an occult detective. Set in Styria in the then-Austrian Empire, a young girl, Laura, narrates the blood-curdling tale of the vampire Carmilla or Mircalla, the Countess Karnstein. Carmilla has often been adapted to film, opera and other media, and has inspired the author Anne Rice.

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