Carmilla (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the timeJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu published Carmilla in 1872, a year before his death, as a short story in a collection titled In A Glass Darkly. Although it is not the first vampire story that was written, the character of the vampire Carmilla undoubtedly influenced the delineation of the Dramula of Bram Stoker. The story takes place in Styria where Laura, the young narrator, lives in an ancient castle with her elderly father and a few servants. Carmilla first appears on the scene when Laura is only six years old. After falling asleep in Carmilla's arms, she wakes up startled when she feels two needles sticking in her chest. Her babysitter and the housekeeper, who entered the room upon hearing her screams, found no one or any mark on her chest.Carmilla will reappear thirteen years later, when the carriage in which she travels with her elegant mother has or pretends to have an accident near Laura's castle, and Carmilla must stay to recover. The rest of the story takes place with the suspense of a police novel and the passion and melancholy of an unusual love story between the protagonist and the vampire woman, until culminating in an ending that has marked all the subsequent vampire literature.