cristinaz 's review for:

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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I was really interested in reading this lesbian-vampire gothic novella but the casual racism right at the beginning of the story really ruined my mood to be honest. 

The story itself is not bad at all: the mysterious guest that gets invited to stay at the Schloss and her secrecy, the "pandemic" that follows Carmilla's arrival, the nighttime apparitions in the protagonist's bedroom and her consequential sickness climix into the inevitable revelation of the truth.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism

Then she described a hideous black woman, with a sort of colored turban on her head, and who was gazing all the time from the carriage window, nodding and grinning derisively towards the ladies, with gleaming eyes and large white eyeballs, and her teeth set as if in fury.