Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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ISBN: 9780815633112
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Text of and critical essays on the 1872 vampire tale chronicling the experiences of a young woman lured by the charms of a female vampire.

Author: Kim Turrisi
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525302930
Size: 26.87 MB
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Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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An adaptation of Shaftesbury’s award-winning, groundbreaking queer vampire web series, Carmilla. Newly escaped from the stifling boredom of a small town, college freshman Laura is ready for her first great adventure. But when her roommate, Betty, vanishes, and a sarcastic, nocturnal philosophy student named Carmilla moves into Betty’s side of the room, Laura decides to play detective. Turns out, Betty isn’t the first girl to go missing — she’s just the first girl not to come back. As Laura closes in on answers, tensions rise with Carmilla. Is this just a roommate relationship that isn't working out, or does Carmilla know more than she's letting on about the disappearances? What will Laura do if it turns out her roommate isn't just selfish and insensitive, but completely inhuman? And what will she do with the feelings she’s starting to have for Carmilla?

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782275851
Size: 79.76 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in the sexual tension between two young women and gothic romance. A deluxe gift edition of the cult classic that predated and greatly influenced Dracula and much vampire literature that followed, including Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, teenaged Laura leads a solitary life with only her father, attendant and tutor for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest -- the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her entrancing new companion, one defined by mysterious happenings and infused with an implicit but undeniable eroticism. As Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day...

Author: Joseph Sheridan Lefanu
Publisher: Lanternfish Press
ISBN: 9781941360385
Size: 76.93 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship-until a carriage accident brings the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla into her life. Le Fanu's compelling vampire tale was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's Dracula. The Lanternfish Press edition includes notes and a new introduction by award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado.

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Size: 40.97 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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"Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781658263399
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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the timeJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu published Carmilla in 1872, a year before his death, as a short story in a collection titled In A Glass Darkly. Although it is not the first vampire story that was written, the character of the vampire Carmilla undoubtedly influenced the delineation of the Dramula of Bram Stoker. The story takes place in Styria where Laura, the young narrator, lives in an ancient castle with her elderly father and a few servants. Carmilla first appears on the scene when Laura is only six years old. After falling asleep in Carmilla's arms, she wakes up startled when she feels two needles sticking in her chest. Her babysitter and the housekeeper, who entered the room upon hearing her screams, found no one or any mark on her chest.Carmilla will reappear thirteen years later, when the carriage in which she travels with her elegant mother has or pretends to have an accident near Laura's castle, and Carmilla must stay to recover. The rest of the story takes place with the suspense of a police novel and the passion and melancholy of an unusual love story between the protagonist and the vampire woman, until culminating in an ending that has marked all the subsequent vampire literature.

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026872827
Size: 13.75 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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This carefully crafted ebook: "CARMILLA (Gothic Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. 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). Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media. It is a one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. 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".

Author: J. Sheridan LeFanu
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625583834
Size: 44.96 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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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 the generally-considered master work of that genre, Dracula, the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's short story.

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 28.39 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 114
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A classic Victorian vampire novella, which influenced Bram Stoker's later treatment of the vampire mythos in Dracula.

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940849133
Size: 62.72 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than the generally-considered master work of that genre, Dracula, the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's novella. In the earliest manuscript of Dracula, dated 8 March 1890, the castle is set in Styria, although the setting was changed to Transylvania six days later. As with Dracula, critics have looked for the sources used in the writing of the text. Matthew Gibson proposes that Le Fanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Dissertations sur les apparitions des anges, des demons et des esprits, et sur les revenants et vampires de Hongrie, de Boheme, de Moravie, et de Silesie, which was first anonymously translated into English in a single volume in 1759. Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his best known works are Uncle Silas, "Carmilla" and The House by the Churchyard.

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782275843
Size: 41.35 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in the sexual tension between two young women and gothic romance. A deluxe gift edition of the cult classic that predated and greatly influenced Dracula and much vampire literature that followed, including Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, teenaged Laura leads a solitary life with only her father, attendant and tutor for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest -- the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her entrancing new companion, one defined by mysterious happenings and infused with an implicit but undeniable eroticism. As Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day...

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652046
Size: 75.41 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Costello-Sullivan has compiled a student-friendly version of Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire tale, "Carmilla." This critical edition includes an introduction by the editor, a timeline, a short biographical sketch of the author, a selected bibliography, and four original, scholar-authored essays that explicate the novella for an undergraduate audience. This work situates "Carmilla" within its Irish cultural milieu and treats the text as self-standing rather than as a precursor to Dracula.

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513276638
Size: 20.94 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Carmilla (1872) is a novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Published twenty-six years before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Le Fanu’s work of Gothic horror and mystery is considered an important early entry in the genre of vampire fiction. Recorded in the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, a medical professional with a detective’s sensibility, is the story of Laura, a teenager bearing a strange secret. Raised in a castle by her father, a widower who recently concluded his career in service to the Austrian Empire, Laura has been haunted since her youth, when she was visited at night by a beautiful, spectral woman. Now eighteen, she awaits the visit of Bertha Rheinfelt, a niece of her father’s friend. When Bertha dies mysteriously, however, and when a girl named Carmilla is brought to the castle under strange circumstances, Laura fears that the past has come full circle. But she soon overcomes her mournful state, growing close with Carmilla. But the girl’s behavior soon proves unsettling. Carmilla is prone to sleepwalking, sleeps through the day, declines to participate in prayers, and makes romantic overtures to Laura. She begins to be haunted by strange and violent dreams, waking one night to discover Carmilla at the foot of her bed, and bite marks along her neck. Her father intervenes, taking her to a local village. On the way, they meet Bertha’s uncle, who shares the chilling details of her fate. It becomes clear that Carmilla, whoever she is, is far from the innocent young girl she claims to be. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Dusty White
ISBN: 1441436316
Size: 48.77 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Carmilla created the modern vampire. She was the first romantic vampire, and after inspiring Bram Stoker's Dracula she has continued with us, always in the shadow, influencing culture with a subtlety that is as alluring as it is elitist. A multi-layered story of love, loss, and a yearning for both a past and a future unobtainable, and finally of great sacrifice, Carmilla ranks as one of the world's great tragedies. A lonely young girl living in a desolate forest is befriended by a young countess after what seems a chance encounter. Laura's innocence prevents her from seeing the obvious, that her new friend Carmilla is a demon of the highest order, and one who has fallen passionately in love with her. Over time Carmilla's lust for Laura and her soul overpower her caution, and the serenity of a life of seclusion becomes a nightmarish existence for Laura as her world unravels in ways that can never be repaired. This is an archival quality presentation of the original unabridged story.

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415287
Size: 69.37 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 627
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In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "through a glass darkly." The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Green Tea a clergyman is being driven mad by an evil demon that takes the ephemeral form of a monkey, but is unseen by others as it burdens the victim's mind with psychological torment. In The Familiar, revised from Le Fanu's The Watcher of 1851, a sea captain is stalked by a dwarf, "The Watcher." Is this strange character from captain's past? In Mr Justice Harbottle a merciless court judge is attacked by vengeful spirits, dreaming he is sentenced to death by a horrific version of himself. The story was revised from 1853's An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street. In The Room in the Dragon Volant, a notable mystery which includes a premature burial theme, an innocent young Englishman in France tries to rescue a mysterious countess from her unbearable situation. Lastly, Carmilla tells the tale of a lesbian vampire. It was a huge influence on Bram Stoker's writing of Dracula and the basis for the films Vampyr in 1932 and The Vampire Lovers in 1970.

Author: Stephanie Spinner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679994350
Size: 35.62 MB
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.