by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · Mondolibri Edizioni · tapa dura · ISBN 8022264778794
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«Carmilla» is the gothic horror novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, published by Mondolibri Edizioni in hardcover (160 pages, in Italian).
Laura forms an obsessive relationship with the mysterious Carmilla, who reveals herself as a supernatural presence. The narrative, laden with gothic suspense, shows how Carmilla stalks her victims and explores forbidden desire and the hidden.
Originally published in 1872, it precedes Dracula by Bram Stoker, which it inspired. This edition was published in March 2009.
For readers of classic horror and Irish gothic fiction, interested in the origins of the vampire tale.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, journalist and newspaper proprietor. Le Fanu is considered by literary critics to be among the greatest ghost story writers of the Victorian era, as several of his works were central to the development of the genre. He was the author of Gothic short stories and macabre poems, novels such as Uncle Silas (1864), and the collection of five stories In a Glass Darkly (1872), in which the novella Carmilla (1872) is significant as a foundational work of vampire literature.
