Growing up in a remote estate, Laura had only her father and a pair of governesses for company. Until she came. Carmilla. Beautiful and mysterious, seemingly fragile but utterly devoted to Laura. And also, hungry.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a famous Irish writer best known for Gothic and mystery fiction. Le Fanu was the most prominent ghost-story writer in the 19th century.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a famous Irish writer best known for Gothic and mystery fiction. Le Fanu was the most prominent ghost-story writer in the 19th century.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a famous Irish writer best known for Gothic and mystery fiction. Le Fanu was the most prominent ghost-story writer in the 19th century.

D. 1767-in the beginning of the month of May-I mention it because, as I said, I write from memoranda, an awfully dark night came down on Chapelizod and all the country round. I believe there was no moon, and the stars had been quite put out under the wet 'blanket of the night, ' which impenetrable muffler overspread the sky with a funereal darkness

Some time within the first ten years of the last century, there stood in the fair city of Dublin, and in one of those sinuous and narrow streets which lay in the immediate vicinity of the Castle, a goodly and capacious hostelry, snug and sound, and withal carrying in its aspect something staid and aristocratic, and perhaps in nowise the less comfortable that it was rated, in point of fashion, somewhat obsolete. Its structure was quaint and antique; so much so, that had its counterpart presented itself within the precincts of "the Borough," it might fairly have passed itself off for the...

Some time within the first ten years of the last century, there stood in the fair city of Dublin, and in one of those sinuous and narrow streets which lay in the immediate vicinity of the Castle, a goodly and capacious hostelry, snug and sound, and withal carrying in its aspect something staid and aristocratic, and perhaps in nowise the less comfortable that it was rated, in point of fashion, somewhat obsolete. Its structure was quaint and antique; so much so, that had its counterpart presented itself within the precincts of "the Borough," it might fairly have passed itself off for the...