Carmilla

A teenage girl describes her unusual childhood to a patient but curious doctor. Raised in a castle by her father, a widower who recently concluded his career in service to the Austrian Empire, Laura has been haunted since her youth with visions of a beautiful, spectral woman. Carmilla is a Gothic horror novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

About the author

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was the leading Gothic horror writer during the nineteenth century. Born in Ireland in 1814, he grew up in a literary family and began writing for the Dublin University Magazine in 1838. He published his first ghost story, "The Ghost and the Bone-Setter," in 1838. His most notable work, Carmilla, published in 1872, was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Le Fanu's other notable works include The House by the Churchyard (1863), Wylder's Hand (1864), Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864), Guy Deverell (1865), and In a Glass Darkly (1871). Le Fanu is widely considered to be the father of the English ghost story. He died in 1873, one year after his most prolific work, Carmilla, was published. It is rumored that he "died of fright."

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2021
• EAN: 9781513271637
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-7163-7
• No. of pages: 82
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Horrific, Paranormal, Supernatural and Gothic Tales; Mint Editions (Horrific, Paranormal, Supernatural and Gothic Tales)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Horror, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories