Carmilla

Name: Carmilla
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN: 9781666518450

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrator: Jodie Harris

Unabridged: 2 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/14/2021

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Horror, Gothic

Synopsis

Due to an unfortunate series of events, a teenage girl named Carmilla is left in the care of a wealthy widower and his daughter, Laura. Laura, upon meeting the poor girl, comes to realize that she knows her face. Years prior when she was but a child, Laura was haunted by a presence in her room with the likeness of the young girl. Convinced it was just a nightmare, Laura and Carmilla become fast friends. But as Carmilla's stay continues, strange things begin to happen to the townspeople nearby. It's not until Carmilla disappears that Laura and her father discover the truth about their mysterious houseguest.

About Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer best known for his horror fiction. A meticulous craftsman Le Fanu was a master of tone and effect, rather than “shock horror”, and frequently reworked plots and ideas from his earlier short stories for his novels, which also included Gothic fiction and mysteries. A leading writer of the Victorian era, his most popular works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla, and The House by the Churchyard.

About Jodie Harris

Jodie Harris is a versatile storyteller who enjoys narrating multiple genres of audiobooks. After receiving her bachelor's degree in music theater, she worked professionally in theater and on-screen for close to two decades before pursuing narration. She currently resides with her family in Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jesse

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

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 Meave

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

Goodreads review by Alejandro

Bloody relevant to read! BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS... But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula. Also, it presented lesb......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

‘Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.’ Step aside, Dracula, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu is my new yardstick for vampiric stories. You may have heard the big talking point around Carmilla, a queer vampire story published as a serial in The Dark Blue (later collected in La Fanu’s......more