J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Paperback | Pages: 108 pages Rating: 3.82 | 41190 Users | 3365 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Carmilla |
| ISBN: | 0809510839 (ISBN13: 9780809510832) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Carmilla, Laura (Carmilla), General Spielsdorf, Laura's Father, Madame Perrodon, Madamoiselle De LaFontaine, Baron Vordenburg |
| Setting: | Austria Styria(Austria) |
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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 lesbian situations, easily one of the first open mentions of the topic in literature. So, it was a pioneer book in two subjects: Vampires and Lesbian literature. Some may wonder how it was possible to publish a book with lesbian issues in 1872. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanú was ingenious in that, since when he was asked about, he just replied that it wasn't a homosexual situation since Carmilla was a vampire and due that, it was a creature without sexual genre. Sneaky devil this Le Fanu! Of course, that was a trick by the author but it worked since the book didn't have any trouble to be published in those times when there was a extremely close-minded attitude. And certainly the importance of the book to the eventual sucess of Bram Stoker's novel was fundamental. Without Carmilla there weren't Dracula and due that maybe there weren't a vampire sub-genre in the horror books that now it's one of the strongest subjects in modern paranormal literature. BRITISH GOTHIC Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either. Le Fanú also was the father of the Gothic horror of Britain establishing the style of how that kind of literature would be written even on these days. Maybe the only trouble with Carmilla to be read by current readers is its form of mystery that it's impossible that anybody would pick nowadays this particular novel to read without the previous knowledge that Carmilla is a vampire, and due that, the reader felt like reading a mystery where one already knows the answer to the mystery. The clues to the real nature of Carmilla are elegant and stylish but too evident for any reader familiar with vampire-related similar books, movies, TV series, etc... It's clear that Carmilla started all and the reality is that anybody else copied FROM it, but sadly, in many case, readers find the book way after of being already too familiar with the general world of vampires, diminishing the shock that the book could ever do. However, it's still an important book in literature history.Present Regarding Books Carmilla
| Title | : | Carmilla |
| Author | : | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 108 pages |
| Published | : | September 5th 2000 by Wildside Press (first published 1872) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Classics. Gothic. Paranormal. Vampires. Fiction. Fantasy. LGBT |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 41190 Users | 3365 ReviewsNotice Regarding Books Carmilla
I loved Carmilla as a character. She truly was the original Dracula, leaving Bram Stoker with plenty of inspiration to craft his gothic classic. Carmilla is charming and cruel, broken and detached. A delightfully scary and haughty lady. The book was revolutionary in many ways, introducing the world to the first-known female vampire in the starring role of a novella, breaking the rules of the puritan society it was written in by exploring female sexuality and homoeroticism (in a similar fashionI just LOVE your uproarious, highly entertaining and also highly edifying reviews, Alex! Even if I just can't add another wildly interesting book as
Note, Oct. 1, 2012: I just modified this review slightly to incorporate a changed perspective I came to as a result of a discussion in one of my groups.This book is one of the best treatments of the vampire theme I have read (admittedly, I haven't read very many --even counting the ones I didn't like enough to finish!). While the author's diction is Victorian, the book is a short, quick read (unlike the massive tomes that some 19th-century novels are), so it shouldn't be daunting even for
.....Here it is OCTOBER and I'm stumped at finding a good scary read so I reverted to the GR list of Best Horror...then moved on to Best Gothic Books Of All Time and found this little gem......While not scary, CARMILLA is indeed an atmospheric well told story and one of the earliest works of vampire fiction. First published in 1872, CARMILLA predates even DRACULA by more than 25 years......It all begins with a creepy carriage misadventure....is filled with phantasmagoria and ends....well, I'm
Best vampire story ever written. Anyone who disagrees with me? It's on!
4 Stars for Carmilla: A Vampire Tale (audiobook) by J Sheridan Le Fanu read by Megan Follows. This is a very early gothic vampire tale. It was written 26 years before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. Its a rather short but very poetic story. I find it interesting to see how this mythology got its start. This was a great audiobook...5
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