CARMILLA is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a Female Vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (CARMILLA is an anagram of Mircalla).
James described Le Fanu as absolutely in the First rank as a writer of ghost stories..
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He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels.
It is a one of the earliest works of Vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker\'s Dracula (1897) by 26 years.
The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media.
Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the First occult doctor in literature.
Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr.
CARMILLA is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a Female Vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (CARMILLA is an anagram of Mircalla)
