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Laura comments that this information seems needless to say, and her father laughs it off..
Before she leaves, she sternly notes that her daughter will not disclose any information whatsoever about her family, past, or herself, and that Carmilla is of sound mind.
She arranges to leave her daughter with Laura and her father until she can return in three months.
Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura\'s father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed.
Both girls instantly recognize the other from the "dream" they both had when they were young.
Her name is Carmilla.
A carriage accident outside Laura\'s home unexpectedly brings a girl of Laura\'s age into the family\'s care.
Laura is saddened by the loss of a potential friend, and longs for a companion.
The General ambiguously concludes that he will discuss the circumstances in detail when they meet later.
The General was supposed to bring his niece, Bertha Rheinfeldt, to visit the two, but the niece suddenly died under mysterious circumstances.
Twelve years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter he received earlier from his friend, General Spielsdorf.
She later claims to have been bitten on the chest, although no wounds are found on her.
When she was six years old, Laura had a vision of a beautiful visitor in her bedchamber.
Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a "picturesque and solitary" castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria, where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.
The story is narrated by Laura, one of the two main protagonists of the tale.
Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature.
The story is presented by Le Fanu as part of the casebook of Dr.
The story has been adapted many times in film and other media.
It predates Bram Stoker\'s Dracula by 26 years.
It tells the story of a young woman\'s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla.
It was first published in 1871 as a serial narrative in The Dark Blue.
Sheridan Lefanu Classic Gothic Fiction GOTHIC VAMPIRES GALORE Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction.
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