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Carmilla And Laura
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Author : S D Simper
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-12-15
Carmilla And Laura written by S D Simper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Fiction categories.
"This is a beautiful retelling ... perfect for anyone who likes darker-themed romance, horror stories, or plain ol' lesbian vampires." -The Lesbian 52 In the late 19th century, Laura lives a lonely life in a schloss by the forest, Styria, with only her doting father and two governesses for company. A chance accident brings a new companion, however - the eccentric and beautiful Carmilla. With charm unparalleled and habits as mysterious as her history, Carmilla's allure is undeniable, drawing Laura closer with every affectionate touch and word. Attraction blossoms into a temptation Laura fears to name, a tantalizing passion burning brighter than the fires of hell. But when a mysterious plague begins stealing the lives of young women in her home and the village beyond, Laura wrestles to reconcile the truth - that the gentle, fragile woman she loves may be a monster cast out of heaven. Carmilla, the classic vampire novella written by J Sheridan LeFanu, receives new life in this gorgeous retelling, centered on the provocative, controversial leads of the original, Carmilla and Laura.
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Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: Modernista
Release Date : 2023-11-21
Carmilla written by J. Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by Modernista this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with categories.
Young and lonely, Laura lives with her widowed father in a castle in Austria. When a carriage breaks down on their estate the mysterious Carmilla is brought into Laura’s life, who welcomes a potential friend. The girls become fast friends, although Laura can’t help but notice Carmilla’s strange behaviour – sleeping most of the day, sleepwalking, and refusing to talk about her family or past. And then there are the dreams of a large beast entering her room. Carmilla stands as a pioneering work in the vampire genre, predating even Bram Stoker’s Dracula and influencing generations of Gothic literature. Le Fanu’s narrative, with its haunting beauty and sensuous dread, explores themes of love, identity, and the macabre, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of horror fiction. Prepare to be seduced and unnerved by this timeless tale of forbidden passion and the darkness that lurks within the shadows. JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU [1814-1873] was an Irish mystery and horror author. He had an enormous influence on the horror genre in the 19th and 20th century, especially through his championing of tone and effect rather than shock factor. Among his most noted work is the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla [1872] and mystery Uncle Silas [1864].
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Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-03-07
Carmilla written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-07 with categories.
Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult detective in literature.[6]Laura, the teenaged protagonist, narrates, beginning with her childhood in a "picturesque and solitary" castle amid an extensive forest in Styria, where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower retired from service to the Austrian Empire. When she was six, Laura had a vision of a very beautiful visitor in her bedchamber. She later claims to have been punctured in her breast, although no wound was found.Twelve years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter from his friend, General Spielsdorf. The general was supposed to bring his niece, Bertha Rheinfeldt, to visit the two, but the niece suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. The general ambiguously concludes that he will discuss the circumstances in detail when they meet later.Laura, saddened by the loss of a potential friend, longs for a companion. A carriage accident outside Laura's home unexpectedly brings a girl of Laura's age into the family's care. Her name is Carmilla. Both girls instantly recognize the other from the "dream" they both had when they were young.Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed. She arranges to leave her daughter with Laura and her father until she can return in three months. Before she leaves, she sternly notes that her daughter will not disclose any information whatsoever about her family, past, or herself, and that Carmilla is of sound mind. Laura comments that this information seems needless to say, and her father laughs it off.Carmilla and Laura grow to be very close friends, but occasionally Carmilla's mood abruptly changes. She sometimes makes romantic advances towards Laura. Carmilla refuses to tell anything about herself, despite questioning by Laura. Her secrecy is not the only mysterious thing about Carmilla; she never joins the household in its prayers, she sleeps much of the day, and she seems to sleepwalk outside at night.
Carmilla
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Author : Kim Turrisi
language : en
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Release Date : 2019-05-07
Carmilla written by Kim Turrisi and has been published by Kids Can Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
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?
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Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: Namaskar Books
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Author : J. Sheridan LeFanu
language : en
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Release Date : 2018
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The protagonist, Laura, narrates how her life goes from placid and calm to disconcerting and frightening when Carmilla appears, a beautiful and enigmatic young woman.Laura, the protagonist of the story, is a young woman who lives with her father and servants in an old castle in the remoteness of Styria (Austria). She often remembers when she was a little girl and was asleep in the arms of a young girl and woke up feeling two needles in her neck.His life takes a turn when, in front of the castle where they live, a lady's carriage suffers an accident, and his daughter, who also traveled in it, is unconscious, as the lady could not waste time and should continue traveling, the young woman is received at Hollis Castle until his mother comes back for her. Laura and the young woman, Carmilla, make friends, even though the new tenant shows peculiarities in her behavior: she wakes up after noon and locks herself in her room without showing signs of being in it.Themes"Funeral": illustration by Michael Fitzgerald. The Dark Blue.The story shows many characteristics of Gothic terror, and highlights the popular stereotype of the vampire and the perplexity of the characters in the face of supernatural events, and increases it to ecstasy and terror at the same time.It should also be noted that the subtle influence of erotic content, which is related to vampires, is lesbian in nature. Sheridan Le Fanu took that theme, a taboo for the time, but knew how to put it in such a way that the reader of the time was approaching the subject.
Carmilla Annotated
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Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-04-08
Carmilla Annotated written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-08 with categories.
Dracula often gets the credit, but what if one of the first vampires was actually a woman?Laura and her father live a quiet life in their remote castle in the forests of Styria. It's a lonely life for Laura, who longs for companionship besides her governess or occasional visitors. Perhaps it is her longing that summons the mysterious house guest, Carmilla.As peasants in the countryside around the castle begin to fall prey to sudden "wasting" deaths, Laura finds herself inexplicably drawn to Carmilla.Will Laura be able to avoid the fate of so many others, or will she succumb to the bite of Carmilla? This edition of Carmilla has been carefully edited to allow for ease of reading, thus some things have been changed to modern English. Care was taken to preserve the tone and voice of the original work and most changes were simple and grammatical in nature.As a fan and writer of the genre, and lover of all things vampire, I hope the story of Carmilla continues to inspire.
Women S Sexual Liberation From Victorian Patriarchy In Sheridan Le Fanu S Carmilla
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Author : Ilona Gaul
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-11-16
Women S Sexual Liberation From Victorian Patriarchy In Sheridan Le Fanu S Carmilla written by Ilona Gaul and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Marburg (Institute for English and American Studies), course: Blood, Lust and (Un)Death: Vampires in American and British Cultures, language: English, abstract: Carmilla is the concluding story of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s horror story collection In a Glass Darkly which was published in 1872. Carmilla does not simply complete this collection but raises the topic of lesbianism and thus conveys the most provocative idea of all preceding texts. Considering the extreme prudery prevailing during the Victorian age, the publication of Carmilla represented a real scandal ignoring the severe, moral restrictions of that time. Women were not understood as sexual beings and moreover, homosexuality was a term people were absolutely ignorant of. An erotic relationship with a partner of the same sex was a thing people could not think or dared not to think of. Among others McCormack states, “We begin with a pious clergyman and end with lesbianism, the offence Queen Victoria found unbelievable.” (McCormack 154). Nevertheless or even because of this, Carmilla is Le Fanu’s best remembered work and considered one of the most influential texts of English vampire literature. It is not without reason that Carmilla served Bram Stoker as an inspiration for his novel Dracula which has been the most popular piece of vampire literature until today. Carmilla is set in Styria with no apparent hint when it takes place. The two protagonists Laura and Carmilla are both young girls whose relationship becomes more and more erotic as the story proceeds. Together with her father and a few servants, Laura lives very isolated in the family’s castle with no surroundings but forest for miles. She is more than happy to have finally found a companion in the beautiful Carmilla. Carmilla who turns out to be a vampire seduces Laura and loftily confesses her love to Laura more than once. While the reader is aware of Carmilla’s nature quite early, Laura ignores the obvious until the very end. Laura has ambiguous feelings for her female lover. On the one hand she feels drawn towards her; on the other hand she has a revulsion against Carmilla’s strange behaviour. During the process of Laura being vampirized, she becomes weaker every day and more and more similar to Carmilla. Laura’s father watches this proceeding sorrowfully without being able to help it. In the following, I will show that Laura’s devotion to Carmilla exercised through the vampiric act can be read as a female escape from patriarchal chains. The male characters that all play minor roles lose control of the events and are powerless against the unknown enchantment Carmilla radiates.
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Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-04-27
Carmilla written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with categories.
Laura, the protagonist, narrates, beginning with her childhood in a "picturesque and solitary" castle amid an extensive forest in Styria, where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower retired from service to the Austrian Empire. When she was six, Laura had a vision of a beautiful visitor in her bedchamber. She later claims to have been punctured in her breast, although no wound was found.Twelve years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter from his friend, General Spielsdorf. The General was supposed to bring his niece, Bertha Rheinfeldt, to visit the two, but the niece suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. The General ambiguously concludes that he will discuss the circumstances in detail when they meet later.Laura, saddened by the loss of a potential friend, longs for a companion. A carriage accident outside Laura's home unexpectedly brings a girl of Laura's age into the family's care. Her name is Carmilla. Both girls instantly recognize the other from the "dream" they both had when they were young.
Carmilla Annotated
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Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-04-10
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The novella is set in 19th-century Styria, which is located in Austria. It is narrated by a young woman named Laura, who tells her story to Doctor Hesselius, whose papers are being organized by an aide.Laura lives with her father (a widower) in a castle deep in the forest of Styria. It is an isolated but beautiful and serene place. Besides the servants, the only inhabitants of the castle are Madame Perrodon, a governess, and Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, a finishing governess.Laura narrates that her first distinct memory of her life is from when she was six years old. She awoke in the middle of the night without any nurse or other attendant. She was not afraid until she saw a lovely young woman at the foot of her bed. The woman came and laid down with her and they fell asleep. Laura then awoke to the sensation of two piercing needles below her throat, and the woman fled to under her bed. When her nurse and others came, they felt the spot next to the child and realized it was warm, but Laura's father dismissed it all as a bad dream. Laura remained afraid of the night for a long time afterward.At present, Laura and her father are expecting General Spielsdorf, a neighbor, and his niece, a young woman Laura's age with whom she is excited to spend time since she is often lonely. A letter arrives bearing bad news, though-General Spielsdorf says his niece is dead, and rambles incoherently about seeking vengeance. Laura is very disappointed.That same day though, Laura and her father espy a carriage coming toward them at breakneck speed, and it crashes near their castle. Everyone seems to be okay, including an older, elegant lady and her young daughter, who is unconscious but alive. The old woman says she has urgent business and wonders if she can leave her daughter here. Laura is thrilled because the young woman is beautiful and charming, and she has been cruelly deprived of the General's niece. Laura's father agrees. The old woman pulls him aside and says that her daughter, Carmilla, will say nothing of herself and where she is from; it is a matter of importance.Carmilla is brought inside and a doctor visits and proclaims that she is going to be fine. When Laura meets her for the first time, she is struck anew by Carmilla's loveliness as well as by the fact that Carmilla was the young woman from her encounter when she was six. Carmilla tells her quickly that she too had a similar encounter when she was a young girl, and in it Laura was the older girl; she concludes that they were meant to be friends and Laura agrees. Carmilla is open, warm, and effusive with Laura, who wonders at this level of confidence. She feels a tiny degree of repulsion but the attraction overwhelms her.The two become fast friends and are enraptured with each other. Carmilla has a few odd habits, such as locking her door from the inside at night, not coming down until one in the afternoon, and displaying an intense lassitude. She also has moments when she is utterly consumed by a passion for Laura and kisses, grasps, and tells her they will be one. Laura finds this odd but cannot help but return Carmilla's affection. Laura wishes Carmilla would tell her more about where she came from, but Carmilla firmly but kindly rebuffs her questioning. As for religion, Laura learns Carmilla was baptized but she never takes prayers with them, and one day expresses disdain for a retinue of peasants singing a hymn. She does seem superstitious though, purchasing a charm from a traveling hunchback against the "oupire" (vampire) said to be in the region and urging Laura to do so as well.Laura and her father come to realize that Carmilla is probably descended from the same line as Laura's mother-the Karnsteins, an ancient and noble family in the region whose name and title have long since died out. This is brought to light when a portrait of Mircalla, C.............