"Carmilla" is the book that set the text for "Dracula," that threw the light on our morbid fascination with the vampire legend. This is "Carmilla," J. Sheridan LeFanu's classic novel of blood, terror -- and a love that dare not speak its name.[...]
This Gothic novella tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than t[...]