15 Facts About Carmilla

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years.

Carmilla, serialised in the literary magazine The Dark Blue in late 1871 and early 1872, was reprinted in Le Fanu's short-story collection In a Glass Darkly .

Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed.

Carmilla's arranges to leave her daughter with Laura and her father until she can return in three months.

Carmilla refuses to tell anything about herself, despite questioning by Laura.

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Carmilla suggests that she might be descended from the Karnsteins, though the family died out centuries before.

Carmilla finds a small, blue spot, an inch or two below her collar, where the creature in her dream bit her, and speaks privately with her father, only asking that Laura never be unattended.

Carmilla hid with a sword and waited until a large, black creature of undefined shape crawled onto his niece's bed and spread itself onto her throat.

Carmilla leapt from his hiding place and attacked the creature, which had then taken the form of Millarca.

The general and Carmilla both fly into a rage upon seeing each other, and the general attacks her with an axe.

The general explains that Carmilla is Millarca, both anagrams for the original name of the vampire Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.

The duality of Carmilla's character is suggested by her human attributes, the lack of predatory demeanour, and her shared experience with Laura.

Carmilla had nocturnal habits, but was not confined to the darkness.

Carmilla's had unearthly beauty, and was able to change her form and to pass through solid walls.

Some critics, among them William Veeder, suggest that Carmilla, notably in its outlandish use of narrative frames, was an important influence on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw .