Carmilla / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / Persimmon

Carmilla / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / Persimmon

A Gothic novella by the Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, it is one of the most seminal and extraordinary works in the genre, and one that greatly influenced subsequent vampire literature - especially the best-known vampire novel of all, 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker, also Irish, which was published in 1897, twenty-six years later.

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