Like many great adaptations, Carmilla is faithful to the source material while also modernizing it for a contemporary audience. The original Carmilla is a novel of gothic literature, a genre thematically marked by death, decay, opulence, innocence, and the supernatural [Editor’s note: Read our Carmilla Roundtable for the 150th anniversary for some more perspectives about…
Roundtable: Happy Anniversary Carmilla
2022 marks the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic vampire story Carmilla, which was originally serialized in The Dark Blue magazine between 1871 and 1872. As well as ranking alongside John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” and Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a foundational text for the vampire genre, Carmilla is remembered as a pioneering work…
Carmilla’s Kindred: The Vampiress in Verse
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Elise Bauman and Natasha Negovanlis Talk Carmilla Season 3
Well Creampuffs, the countdown to goodbye is on for Carmilla. Laura Hollis, Carmilla Karnstein, and friends are on an adventure that doesn’t just involve vampires. No, try an ancient creature out to destroy Silas University and all of its residents, our resident investigative squad included. But will Laura and Carmilla’s love story fizzle out like…