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Ladies loving ladies and sucking blood in 1872.

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

May 26, 2022 by narfna 3 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 11/30 This sure was something, I tell you what. Before I get to the actual review, I do want to say that I am specifically referring to the version edited by Carmen Maria Machado, with an introduction and footnotes by her. Both things fundamentally changed the experience of reading this. I am still boggled in the mind that this is a book about lesbian vampires and their young female victims being seduced, and it was written in […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: carmen maria machado, carmilla, horror, illustrated, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, LGBTQIA, narfna, vampires

narfna's CBR14 Review No:79 · Genres: Horror · Tags: carmen maria machado, carmilla, horror, illustrated, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, LGBTQIA, narfna, vampires ·
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The original vampire-ess

March 29, 2017 by LadyStardust Leave a Comment

Bram Stoker may have been the first to perfect the literary vampire, but he was certainly not the first to creep people out with a good monster. Carmilla was here first (by over 20 years), and she is perfectly frightening herself. After a carriage crashes near their remote forest estate, our narrator Laura and her father agree to take in a young woman as their guest while her mother travels on and promises to return for her. Not too surprisingly, young girls in the nearby village […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: classic horror, Fiction, horror, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, vampire

LadyStardust's CBR9 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: classic horror, Fiction, horror, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, vampire ·
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