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In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest - the beautiful Carmilla. So be...

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Carmilla is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whos...

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Nothing remained to assure us that the adventure had not been an illusion of a moment but the young lady, who just at that moment opened her eyes.

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<p><b> 'Succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer' M.R. James</p></b><p>In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father...

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This chilling collection brings together 15 classic tales by landmark gothic writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and Sheridan Le Fanu, presented in a luxury hardback edition with silver cover embossing and striking page-edge designs.

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Carmilla (1872) is a novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Published twenty-six years before Bram Stokers Dracula, Le Fanus work of Gothic horror and mystery is considered an important early entry in the genre of vampire fiction. Recorded in the cas...

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A young heiress finds herself caught in the sinister plots of her mysterious Uncle Silas. A new edition of Le Fanu's best known work and an exemplary piece of sensation fiction, with an introduction and notes by Claire Connolly.

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Han förde mig in i den gröna vagnen. "Ni kommer att få se besynnerliga saker", sade den gamle. Vid dessa ord upplystes rummet av ett klart men blodigt sken. Stödda mot väggarna stod hela rader av lik, gula, hemska, vanställda. Några gaps...

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En dag dyker en oväntad gäst upp hos Laura och hennes far. Hennes namn är Carmilla, en vacker men gåtfull flicka som får lov att bo hos dem i det österrikiska slottet. Flickorna blir snabbt vänner, men det blir allt tydligare att Carmilla inte är ...

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A landmark edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's shorter fiction, the form at which he most excelled

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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence. When lonely nineteen-year-old Laura welcomes an enigmatic stranger into her home in the heart of...

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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence. When lonely nineteen-year-old Laura welcomes an enigmatic stranger into her home in the heart of...

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The first vampire short story and novella, which came before Dracula , together in one Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction Special, with a foreword by #1 New York Times –bestselling author V. E. Schwab A Penguin Classic...

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'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...'Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Po...

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'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...'Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Po...

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'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Sila...

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'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Sila...

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`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturna...

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'A ghastly groan and a shudder..'From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to ce...

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The haunting tale of a young woman being seduced by a female vampire, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla still manages to enthrall its readers almost two centuries later. Predating Dracula by some 26 years, Carmilla (1871) is the first and perhaps...

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The haunting tale of a young woman being seduced by a female vampire, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla still manages to enthrall its readers almost two centuries later. Predating Dracula by some 26 years, Carmilla (1871) is the first and perhaps...

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A compilation of the Victorian master's classic tales of horror reveals his ability to depict the supernatural.

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In a Glass Darkly is Sheridan Le Fanu's most famous collection of ghost and mystery stories. There are five, all recounted by Martin Hesselius: Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant and Carmilla. What makes t...

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Our mission is to provide the world with beautiful, accessible, illuminating editions of classic horror fiction, introducing these chilling gems to new generations, making them gorgeously illustrated and giving you critical, historical, and artist...

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Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M. R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling narrative crescendos. And yet, aside from some re...

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And I think when another such yesterday shall have arrived, where shall I be?

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This title situates Carmilla within its Irish Cultural milieu and treats the text as self-standing rather than as a precursor to Dracula. Unlike other collections of Gothic literature, Costello-Sullivan's work focuses solely on Carmilla.

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