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A review by kazuchuu
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
4.0
“If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine.”
It is a crime that I took a whole course on supernatural horror and not once did my professor mention Carmilla. So much vampire lore packed into this little book, and paced so well that I was never bored reading it. This is better than some well-known classics.
No one told me just how much yearning there is in this book. Carmilla and Laura are absolutely obsessed with each other, which, good for them—the original vampires have always been gay, what else is new? It makes sense that this book inspired Stoker’s Dracula. When vampires want, they want with a ferocity that is uncontainable. I love that, I think all vampire stories should explore that. I also think we should have more of said vampire stories; I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of them.
4/5
It is a crime that I took a whole course on supernatural horror and not once did my professor mention Carmilla. So much vampire lore packed into this little book, and paced so well that I was never bored reading it. This is better than some well-known classics.
No one told me just how much yearning there is in this book. Carmilla and Laura are absolutely obsessed with each other, which, good for them—the original vampires have always been gay, what else is new? It makes sense that this book inspired Stoker’s Dracula. When vampires want, they want with a ferocity that is uncontainable. I love that, I think all vampire stories should explore that. I also think we should have more of said vampire stories; I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of them.
4/5