NetFable

Carmilla

A carriage overturns outside a lonely Styrian schloss and leaves a girl behind in it. Laura, who has had no companion her own age in years, is delighted. Her father's guest is beautiful, evasive about where she comes from, and never awake before noon. Le Fanu published this twenty-six years before Dracula, and every vampire story since has been borrowing from it. You read it as Laura, and you decide how long you go on making excuses for your friend.

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Chapters

1. CarmillaNursery
2. The Quiet West RoadLime Walk
3. The Face without a NameGuest Chamber
4. The Name She GaveDrawing Room
5. The Locked Western DoorForest Walk
6. The Funeral HymnCourtyard Window
7. The Two Vellum CharmsGreat Hall
8. Mircalla's Restored PortraitCastle Court
9. The Lamps Went OutBedroom
10. The Animal Without a VoiceBreakfast Room
11. The Watched PillowBedroom
12. The Unanswered SearchDressing Room
13. The Hollow on the Dressing-Room SofaLibrary Recess
14. The Road to KarnsteinForest Carriage
15. The General on the Ruined RoadRuined Village Road
16. Millarca at the MasqueradeGeneral's Account
17. The Roofless Chapel TowerKarnstein Ruins
18. The Karnstein Name among the StonesGeneral's Account
19. The Veiled Passenger at the YewsKarnstein Chapel
20. The Stooping TravelerKarnstein Chapel
21. The Commissioner ExpectedDrawing Room
22. The Baron's Old VolumesLibrary

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