Carmilla

Her real name is Mircalla but she’s goes by Millarca and Carmilla. Glad to know the tradition of glaringly obvious anagrams for vampires didn’t begin with Count Alucard.

A good short gothic horror story for October. The story centers on a young woman who is having to deal with a female vampire. As with all vampire stories there is sexuality in their encounter. This leads to topics of the loss of innocence, love and lust, and female sexuality. The sexuality is more blatant than in Dracula. (Be warned if you don't want to avoid this topic.)

Overall, it is a nice read.

The first half of this book is a very interesting, mopdy, atmospheric read that really works. Unfortunately the second half is pretty much just a retelling of the first half except Le Fanu scrambled Carmilla into Millarca

This was a pretty good gothic vampire story! I went into this knowing that there might be some queer characters and I was not disappointed. Lesbian vampires, hell yeah!




Thank you to Pushkin Press and NetGalley for providing me with an eBook copy to review.

Very well written.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.