{"title": "Carmilla", "covers": [973851, 2753723, 2846679, 8575500, 8885642, 8999186, 9177213, 10511012, 11942713, 12273138, 8714184, 10420251, 11506352, 12250258, 12262307, 12500864, 4903142, 8500988, 8741620, 13454360, 13715720, 13628220, 13546325, 13651501, 13668042, 14002604, 14007788, 14007789], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates."}, "subject_places": ["Gratz", "Styria", "Styria (Austria)"], "first_publish_date": "1971", "key": "/works/OL2895536W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL440124A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["823/.8"], "subjects": ["English Fantasy fiction", "Fantasy fiction, English", "Fiction", "Lesbians", "Vampires", "Fiction, horror", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Austria, fiction", "Vampires, fiction", "Gothic Fiction", "Horror", "Ireland, fiction", "Vampires--fiction", "Pr4879.l7 c3 2013", "823/.8", "Pr4879.l7 c3 2009", "English fiction", "Horror tales", "collection:Name", "LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates."}, {"excerpt": "Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardor of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet over-powering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips traveled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, \u201cYou are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.\u201d Then she had thrown herself back in her chair, with her small hands over her eyes, leaving me trembling.", "author": {"key": "/people/mcmlii"}}, {"excerpt": "En ciertas ocasiones, despu\u00e9s de una hora de apat\u00eda, mi extra\u00f1a y bella compa\u00f1era me tomaba la mano, reteni\u00e9ndola en la suya con un apret\u00f3n amoroso, que repet\u00eda una y otra vez, mientras se ruborizaba levemente y me miraba con sus l\u00e1nguidos y encendidos ojos, emitiendo gemidos con tanta rapidez que su vestido sub\u00eda y bajaba al ritmo de su tumultuosa respiraci\u00f3n. Fue como el ardor de un amante. Me avergonzaba. Era odioso, y sin embargo se apoderaba de m\u00ed. Con una expresi\u00f3n de regodeo, me atra\u00eda hacia ella y sent\u00ed sus c\u00e1lidos labios corriendo por mis mejillas mientras ella susurraba, casi en sollozos:\r\n\r\n\u2014T\u00fa eres m\u00eda, ser\u00e1s m\u00eda, t\u00fa y yo somos una para siempre.", "author": {"key": "/people/mcmlii"}}], "subject_times": ["19th century"], "links": [{"title": "Colombian edition", "url": "https://www.idartes.gov.co/es/publicaciones/carmilla", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Carmilla-Ebookzy", "url": "https://ebookzy.com/carmilla/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871\u201372), *Carmilla*\u00a0is 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). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist. The novella notably never acknowledges homosexuality as an antagonistic trait, leaving it subtle and morally ambiguous. The story is often anthologised, and has been adapted many times in film and other media."}, "identifiers": {"wikidata": ["Q1043792"]}, "latest_revision": 35, "revision": 35, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T00:57:46.337571"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-29T07:33:31.506211"}}