Carmilla

Carmilla is a novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. First published 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's contact with a vampire. Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by over twenty years and had a strong influence on Stoker's famous novel. However, Carmilla was not the first vampire novel — the considerably older The Vampyre by John William Polidori probably holds that title.

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Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year. The story ran in The Dark Blue in three issues; January (1872), pp. 592-606; February (1872), pp. 701-714; and March (1872), pp. 59-78.

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