- English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, English, Fiction, Lesbians
First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), *Carmilla* is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist. The novella notably never acknowledges homosexuality as an antagonistic trait, leaving it subtle and morally ambiguous. The story is often anthologised, and has been adapted many times in film and other media.
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Grave, intimate, earnest and classical in form.
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- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 90
- Publisher
- Livre de Poche, Editorial Ultramarina C&D, Desclée De Brouwer
- Editions
- 571
- Language
- Portuguese, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9798587118034
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“Sobre una hoja de papel adherida a la narración que sigue, el doctor Hesselius ha escrito una nota bastante elaborada, nota que acompaña con una referencia a un ensayo suyo sobre el extraño tema iluminado por el presente manuscrito.”
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873), best known as Sheridan Le Fanu, was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are *Uncle Silas*, *Carmilla*, and *The House by the Churchyard*. **Source**: [Sheridan Le Fanu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu) on Wikipedia.
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