{"product_id":"carmilla-hardcover-1","title":"Carmilla - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Sheridan Lefanu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lonely young woman becomes the object of a beautiful stranger's attention, and desire slowly turns into terror.\u003c\/strong\u003e In \u003cem\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/em\u003e, Laura lives in an isolated castle with her father when the mysterious Carmilla enters her life after a strange carriage accident. Carmilla is charming, intimate, melancholy, and unsettling, and her growing attachment to Laura brings both fascination and dread as illness, dreams, and hidden violence gather around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1872, \u003cem\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important vampire stories in English literature and predates Bram Stoker's \u003cem\u003eDracula\u003c\/em\u003e by twenty-five years. Le Fanu's novella blends Gothic atmosphere, supernatural mystery, psychological unease, and forbidden intimacy, creating a vampire tale that is quieter and more seductive than later versions of the form. Its ruined castles, nocturnal visitations, ancestral secrets, and slow revelation of horror helped shape the literary vampire tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of classic horror, Gothic fiction, vampire literature, Victorian supernatural stories, and early psychological horror, \u003cem\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/em\u003e remains essential. Its influence reaches across vampire fiction, queer Gothic readings, horror cinema, and the long history of stories where attraction and danger become impossible to separate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43426567389251,"sku":"9781515430575","price":25.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/carmilla-hardcover-1","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}