Carmilla, who will arrive in our story shortly, is put in a bedroom decorated by a giant tapestry that depicts Cleopatra being bitten to death by asps because nothing says “Get Well Soon” like a wall-size picture of a woman being killed by snakes. Also a lot of dark carved wood furniture and tapestries. That’s as subdued as the landscape ever gets – there are castles and woods and churches and mausoleums and mist all over the place. Over the sward and low grounds a thin film of mist was stealing like smoke, marking the distances with a transparent veil and here and there we could see the river faintly flashing in the moonlight. A lot of things in this book are “picturesque.” Here’s the kind of thing you can expect: The narrator, Laura, is a sweet, sheltered, somewhat spoiled but very nice young woman who lives in a “picturesque” castle in Styria (Austria). To be honest, I pretty much just summed up the plot for you in the paragraph above. People who think the Victorians were prudes clearly haven’t read Carmilla, in which a lesbian vampire seduces her victim night after night and day after day with “languid” movements and many “caresses.” More specifically, it is Victorian Lesbian Vampire Erotica. Genre: Classic, Horror, Historical: Other, LGBTQIA, ParanormalĬarmilla is an early vampire novel (it heavily influenced Dracula, which was written twenty-six years later ).
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