Carmilla

ISBN-13: 9780979015618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 92 str.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Opis

The novella that inspired Bram Stoker to create Dracula.As the result of a nearby carriage accident, Laura and her father are persuaded to allow the apparently injured Carmilla to stay in their home for some months while recovering. At the same time, local peasant girls have been mysteriously dying, and Laura has been having intense nightmares which seem to correspond with her quickly degenerating health. Fearing for his daughters life, Lauras father enlists help and sets out on a quest to cure Laura of her affliction.Le Fanus novella created a standard for vampire and gothic mystery fiction and served as inspiration for Bram Stokers Dracula, which was published twenty-five years later.