Post honen idazlea: Slawska Grabowska
Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
London: Pushkin Press, 2020
156 orrialde
ISBN 978-1-78227-584-8
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November, right after Halloween, it’s a great time to read horror books. That is why this month at the Donostia Book Club we are talking about Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, a Gothic novel from 1872. The Irish author, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu created one of the first works of vampire fiction, prior to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) for 26 years. First published as a series in the magazine “The Dark Blue” (1871-1872), it was reprinted in Le Fanu’s collection of short stories “In a Glass Darkly” (1872). The story is often anthologized, for example, in the beautiful edition published by Alianza Editorial “Vampiros” with 4 stories: Carmilla, Alekséi Tolstoi’s La familia del Vurdalak and Polidori’s El Vampiro. Carmilla has also been adapted many times in movies and other media and continues to attract a lot of interest today. It also set an example for many years of how to represent ghosts in scary stories.
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