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Carmilla
Paperback
Series: Legend Classics
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781917163255
Publisher: Legend Press Us
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.10
Language: English
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 novel reflects contemporary anxieties around social change, including the rise of the middle class and the pressures of industrial and social reform. Its themes of forbidden intimacy and emotional obsession challenged conventions of its time and continue to resonate today.
Carmilla was inspired in part by John Keats's poem La Belle Dame sans Merci, which tells of a mysterious woman who seduces men into passion and despair. The novella is best known as a major influence on Bram Stoker's Dracula, establishing many of the tropes that would come to define vampire fiction.
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