Hey, movie fans! Planning to purchase or rent the recently-made-available Only Lovers Left Alive, director Jim Jarmusch’s moody and highly acclaimed vampire film starring Tilda Swinton (Constantine) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki of the Thor and Marvel’s The Avengers movies)? Then have we got a book for you!
Carmilla is author J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 19th-century vampiric tale of love gone wrong. It’s the most popular title in our Illustrated Classics line, and features a half-dozen black-and-white drawings by Eliseu Gouveia, artist of our Saga of Pandora Zwieback comics and the graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City.
Before Edward and Bella, before Lestat and Louis, even before Dracula and Mina, there was the tale of Carmilla and Laura.
Living with her widowed father in a dreary old castle in the woods of Styria, Laura has longed to have a friend with whom she can confide; a friend to bring some excitement to her pastoral lifestyle. And then Carmilla enters her life.
Left by her mother in the care of Laura’s father, Carmilla is young, beautiful, playful—everything Laura had hoped to find in a companion. In fact, the lonely girl is so thrilled to have a new friend that she is willing to overlook the dark-haired beauty’s strange actions…which include a disturbing, growing obsession for her lovely hostess.
Carmilla, it seems, desires more than just friendship from Laura….
Gothic Beauty Magazine had this to say about it:
“The character Carmilla is touted as the first lesbian vampire, and the way Le Fanu blends together desire and predation is spellbinding, even two hundred years after it first saw print. A true Gothic story, filled with dark, atmospheric ruins, high emotion, and blood-drinking revenants, shadowy histrionics, and set in a mysterious, exotic location, Carmilla is great fun.”
Sounds like something you’d be interested in reading? Then visit the Carmilla product page for all the ordering information.
