Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1 hr 51 min read

A lonely young woman in a remote Styrian castle takes in a beautiful, languid guest named Carmilla, who is far more than she seems.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella is the foundational vampire story that predates and directly influenced 'Dracula,' a masterpiece of dread, desire, and slow-dawning horror centered on one of literature's most seductive monsters. Atmospheric, ambiguous, and enduring. Read it for the original vampire classic, subtler, stranger, and in some ways more haunting than Stoker's.

In its time

Published in 1872, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

1 hr 51 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).