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…
Carmilla’s Kindred: Countess Dolingen and Dracula’s Guest
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. This is the last in the series. No discussion of female vampires in nineteenth-century literature would be complete without mentioning “Dracula’s Guest”, even though this story did not see publication…
Carmilla’s Kindred: Ivan Turgenev and Unhappy Clara
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.
Carmilla’s Kindred: Gogol and The Viy
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.
Carmilla’s Kindred: The Virgin Vampire
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.
Carmilla’s Kindred: Affairs of an Oily-Eyed Woman
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.
Carmilla’s Kindred: The Vampire Portraits of Hume Nisbet
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.
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: A Good Lady and a Cold Embrace
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.
Carmilla’s Kindred: Belles Dames sans Merci
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.
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.
Bang in the Coffin: Looking Back at Gatiss and Moffat’s Dracula
The BBC’s three-part adaptation of Dracula, written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, did not air very long ago at all — just last year, in fact. However, it aired in the January of last year. This places it in the slice of 2020 termed pre-pandemic: an already antediluvian era that must surely be due…