by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253087793
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«Carmilla» is the gothic novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (128 pages, in French).
The work narrates the arrival of a young woman living with her father in a lonely castle and the bond that forms with the mysterious Carmilla, a newly arrived guest. Between unsettling dreams, growing weakness and an oppressive atmosphere, the novel anticipates literary vampirism and combines psychological terror with a suggestive tone of desire.
Work originally published in 1872 within In a Glass Darkly; this 2004 French edition has 128 pages and includes a translation by Jacques Papy.
For readers of horror and gothic classics, particularly those interested in early vampire stories predating Dracula.
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.
