Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A lonely girl in a castle in Styria is given a guest her own age after a carriage accident outside the gate. Carmilla is charming, sleeps until afternoon, and will not say where she comes from. Laura begins to dream, and to weaken.
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In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. Scantily enough ours would have answered among wealthy people at home. My father is English, and I bear an English name, although I…Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, CarmillaStart reading Carmilla free →
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The vampire novel that came twenty-six years before Dracula, and shaped it. Short chapters, and it never once explains itself.
Level B2. This is the original text, not a simplified or abridged version, so you read the real classic.
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