Carmilla (Illustrated)

This edition includes 10 illustrations. J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic novella Carmilla is a precursor to Dracula by Bram Stoker. Yet it is an important one, and in Carmilla, the narrator Laura is uneasy but powerless under the obsessive attentions of – and potent spell cast by – the title character. Le Fanu ultimately describes the relationship between the two women with a typically Victorian stricture, yet the Sapphic implications cannot be ignored - though the central conflict, like in Dracula, lies in the struggle for possession of a young woman’s immortal soul.