Carmilla

"You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish."

Often regarded as the first vampire novel, this late-19th-century Gothic romance is set in Austria and follows a young woman living in isolation whose quiet existence is disrupted by the arrival of a beautiful and unsettling guest. Charged with sensuality and psychological tension, Carmilla blurs the boundary between love and death, desire and danger.

Written during the Victorian era, the no...