About This AudiobookIn the gloomy depths of a Styrian castle, young Laura becomes enchanted by Carmilla - a beautiful aristocrat harboring dark secrets. As their intense friendship blossoms into something more dangerous, a wave of mysterious deaths sweeps through the countryside. Published in 1872, "Carmilla" is the groundbreaking vampire novel that inspired Bram Stoker and defined the genre decades before "Dracula." About the AuthorSheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and one of the great masters of Victorian ghost and mystery fiction. Working from his native Dublin, he produced a shadowy body of novels and stories — including Uncle Silas, The House by the Churchyard, and the haunting vampire novella Carmilla, which predated Dracula by a quarter century and deeply influenced Bram Stoker. A recluse in his later years, known as the "Invisible Prince" of Dublin, he perfected a quiet, insinuating brand of horror whose chill has never faded.
