Carmilla: Annotated

ISBN-13: 9781539406174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 170 str.

J. Sheridan Lefanu; Brett Warren

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This classic Gothic-horror novella follows the perspective of Laura, a young girl who becomes drawn to a beautiful stranger despite her feelings of repulsion and dread. A stranger who's past is so engulfed in darkness and mystery that a shadow of unknown horror seems to linger in the background. Upon her arrival to a small rural Styrian town, the inhabitants find themselves afflicted with strange sickness and mysterious death. A sickness that this stranger is also plagued with. As Laura befriends her, a conflict of feelings and fear overwhelm the senses as she loses herself in the struggle for survival. Set in the early 19th century, this story captivates the audience as a psychological thriller that explores a mind caught in the tangled webs of desire and antipathy. Examining the connection between vampirism and victimology in an exchange that is so elegantly portrayed. A novella that with many

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