Carmilla

First published in 1872, Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu is a haunting Gothic novella that laid the foundation for modern vampire fiction. Written twenty-five years before Bram Stoker's Dracula, this classic tale introduced one of literature's most fascinating and mysterious vampires and has remained an influential work in horror and Gothic literature for more than a century.

Set in the remote forests of Styria in nineteenth-century Austria, the story is narrated by Laura, a young woman liv...