Carmilla la vampira. Testo inglese a fronte

‘ Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood. ’ Step aside, Dracula, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu is my new yardstick for vampiric stories. You may have heard the big talking point around Carmilla , a queer vampire story published as a serial in The Dark Blue (later collected in La Fanu’s Leggi tutto

In many ways the antithesis of Dracula , and if Stoker's novel disappointed me with its clean-cut, heterosexual male-influenced dichotomies, than le Fanu's novella is the flipside of the coin: female-centric, homoerotic, ambiguous and enigmatic (and all in about a quarter of the length!). Here the va Leggi tutto

A sapphic vampire story published decades before Dracula???? I love classics. This is beautifully written and gay and there's a vampire. Also it's like 100 pages long. What more could you want. Bottom line: And they say the perfect book doesn't exist.

so what if she killed a few people? let women have hobbies

So what if she’s the devil ? At least the devil has a job. At least she’s active in the community. What do you do ? 🙄 our original queer coded hot villain 🙇‍♀️

Poor Carmilla. I guess there are only so many isolated noblemen's daughters you can devour before they start talking.

Bloody relevant to read! BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS... But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula . Also, it presented lesb

Vampires are gay. They've always been gay. Twilight was literally the first vampire story that wasn't gay. (Unless it was? I don't know, I didn't read it.) Dracula was our pioneering gay male vampire story. Carmilla , which predates it by some twenty years, is our pioneering lesbian one. The authors t Leggi tutto

3.75

Before Stoker's Dracula.But after Polidori's Vampyre.There was Le Fanu's Carmilla! So. Kind of like the middle child of vampire tales. This one was much shorter and much creepier than Dracula, in my opinion. Carmilla was a scary bitch. And part of that was because she was this ethereally beautiful cre Leggi tutto