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About the product Young Laura lives with her father, a retired military man, in a secluded castle among the picturesque forests of the Austrian Empire. She feels lonely after the news of the sudden death of Bertha, who could become the only friend. But one day a stranger named Carmilla appears in the castle. Her carriage crashed on the way, and the girl’s mother asks to shelter her wounded daughter for a while. Laura and Carmilla spend a lot of time together, but the mysterious guest doesn’t reveal anything about herself. Soon strange events begin to occur: Laura falls ill, her condition worsens every day, and at night she suffers from nightmares. Carmilla is the first vampire thriller in literary history, written 25 years before Bram Stoker’s famous Dracula. The novel has been filmed many times. There are more than 3000 editions and reprints of «Carmilla» in almost all languages of the world. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is often compared to Poe, and his Gothic novels and novels have inspired horror writers for over a century. …
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