Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Carmilla

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 2 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2016


Synopsis

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.

Carmilla is Le Fanu's famous classic vampire story which has been filmed numerous times, including Vampyre (1932), Blood and Roses (1960), Crypt of Horror (1964), The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Carmilla (1999).

It tells the story of a strange and mysterious guest who arrives unexpectedly to stay at a castle and takes a great liking to the daughter of the house. Her attraction soon takes on a sinister aspect...and the similarity to the experience of a neighbouring family, whose girl died recently in mysterious circumstances, becomes increasingly alarming....

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.


Reviews

‘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

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

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