On a walk shortly after, a carriage crashes in front of Laura and her father. He has unfortunately cancelled his visit to them because his niece and ward had died, claiming that she was killed by a monster. One day Laura and her father receive a letter from one General Spielsdorf. Together with Laura’s governess and “finishing governess” – as Laura calls her – Laura and her father live in Syria but are originally from England. The story picks up years later as Laura explains the castle she and her father have come to live in. She is left scared and scarred from this encounter. She begins by telling the reader of her first encounter with Carmilla when she was just six years old, saying that it is her oldest memory. It is told from a young woman named Laura’s point of view. The novella begins with a prologue from a doctor’s assistant explaining that the tale that follows is a recounting of events that befell one of the doctor’s patients. Carmilla served as an inspiration for Brim Stoker’s Dracula, which was published about twenty-five years later in May of 1897. The novella features the first appearances of a female vampire in English gothic literature. Carmilla can be downloaded as a PDF from the library’s website or it can also be requested in tangible form through E-ZBorrow (when E-ZBorrow is accessible). The book Carmilla is an 1872 English novella by J.
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