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  <title><![CDATA[Carmilla]]></title>
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  <default_description>A young Anglo-Austrian woman living at her father's castle is the narrator of this novella.  When a mysterious and beautiful stranger is stranded at the castle in odd circumstances and becomes a guest, the heroine quickly forms a close bond with her --but she subsequently discovers that her &quot;friend&quot; has a dark and lethal secret.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1872</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of the best treatments of the vampire theme I have read (admittedly, I haven't read very many --even counting the ones I didn't like enough to finish!).  While the author's diction is Victorian, the book is a short, quick read (unlike the massive tomes that some 19th-century novels ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18368275">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, this week I read two intense tales of strange longing and obsession from the 1870s: the S&amp;M classic &quot;Venus in Furs&quot; and this lesbian-flavored vampire tale, which, you can read for free, and quickly as it is short, at Project Gutenberg at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/6426708" title="http://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/6426708">http://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/642...</a> . I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71128690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <location><![CDATA[Mohegan Lake, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lovers of vampire fiction and 19th century lit]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 22 15:13:22 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this on Wikisource, since it has long been in the public domain, but for simplicity's sake I just selected the paperback edition.<br/><br/>From a modern perspective, with centuries of lore and creative endeavors on the subject behind us, the narrator of Carmilla seems a little... s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38357090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55240003">
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  <read_at>Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 07 05:07:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 07 05:11:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first came across J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella as part of a graduate independent study of gothic literature.  It quickly became a personal favorite, as well as an integral part of what will (hopefully) one day become my dissertation.<br/><br/><em>Carmilla</em> tells the tale of a vampire (or oupire...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55240003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50804154">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 29 09:18:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 31 08:33:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone in the Supernatural Fiction Readers Group recommended this as an early vampire novel.  It was, in fact, published 25 years before <em>Dracula</em>.  I read it through Project Gutenberg but I would estimate it at 80 pages - a short novel.  The recommender thought the language might be too archaic and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50804154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39210363">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 03 11:50:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 11 08:41:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Published in 1872, eighteen years before the first manuscripts of Stoker’s Dracula, Carmilla is one of the works heavily credited for developing/influencing vampire mythology.  The novella is a first-person account of a young lady, Laura, who becomes the object of a mysterious visitor’s intense ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39210363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59517554">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jun 13 10:17:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[bought this book on a whim, while searching Amazon with &quot;Lesbian Vampires&quot; I ran across this title, and read the wikipedia article, and was intrigued. Apparently this book was on of the ones that inspired Bram Stoker to write his classic Dracula, and so I thought I would like to read Carmi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59517554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52221798">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jesse]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 10 14:00:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 18:29:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In many ways the antithesis of <em>Dracula</em>, and if Stoker's novel disappointed me with its clean-cut, heterosexual male-influenced dichotomies, than le Fanu's novella is the flipside of the coin: female-centric, homoerotic, ambiguous and enigmatic (and all in about a quarter of the length!).  Here the v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52221798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51909867">
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    <name><![CDATA[Danielle &quot;The Book Huntress&quot;]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this story out of the A Taste for Blood Anthology.  I was excited to finally read the story that is really the grandmother of the vampire tale. It preceded Dracula by Bram Stoker by more than twenty years.<br/><br/>Well I have to say that I have mixed feelings about Carmilla.  In some momen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51909867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34114097">
    <user id="1479980">
    <name><![CDATA[Isil]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Dec 04 04:17:02 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carmilla est un des textes fondateurs du mythe littéraire du vampire. Stoker s’en est d’ailleurs certainement inspiré pour écrire Dracula. Très agréable à lire, Carmilla souffre néanmoins, selon moi, d’un côté répétitif. Une seule idée est répétée tout au long de ce très court ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34114097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="202933">
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    <name><![CDATA[Angie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 08 16:27:47 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic gothic novella written in 1872. A young woman, Carmilla, is taken in by a local man and his daughter Laura after he carriage crashes outside their home.  Soon Carmilla and Laura develop a close, even romantic, friendship and Laura begins to have nightmares of a &quot;fiendish cat-like crea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/202933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32650667">
    <user id="592761">
    <name><![CDATA[Priya]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 11 18:02:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 11 18:09:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, a proper vampire book. Well, as much as a book that has (concealed) lesbian fantasies amongst its characters, various army types running around trying to save the day (and failing), eerie vampires who are all about evil can be called &quot;proper&quot;. <br/>Apparently this inspired Mr. Stoker ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32650667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44056505">
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    <name><![CDATA[Wendy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 23 14:07:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was free on the gutenberg site and it was about a female vampire and was written in 1872.  So how could I resist?  The heroine was a dipwad but it was still good.  The author is good at describing the wilderness and the castle and the people.  It turns out that Carmilla, the vampire woman, is m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44056505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66021201">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 11:56:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 09:34:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can see why this story inspired Bram Stoker, he probably read it and thought, &quot;Dang, I can write a better vampire book than this.&quot;  A serial originally published in a literary journal, Carmilla never really gels as a book.  There are a few interesting ideas and sense of place going on, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66021201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24211698">
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    <name><![CDATA[Madame Charlotte]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who likes vampire stories]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 11 02:36:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 26 04:37:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ce trop court récit vampirique se lit d’une traite, et nous plonge dans une ambiance des plus envoûtante. La narratrice nous raconte son expérience et sa rencontre avec l’étrange Carmilla, leur amitié ambiguë et sa tragique conclusion. Fascinée par la jeune fille, la narratrice ne prend p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24211698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52281480">
    <user id="94602">
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    <body><![CDATA[The classic vampire story by the best writer of supernatural fiction ever. Made into innumerable movies. The erotic imagery and lesbian undertones ensure that it has never been out of print. I first read it when I was an impressionable teenager and had to look up what a 'schloss' was, and read it ag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76894001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It turns out this novella was the first published vampire story (1872) and the first to introduce a female vampire.  These facts, in addition to the lesbian themes in the novella, made for a great story that was well-written and engrossing, even in its brevity. Highly recommended! (and I promise to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74404666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic, gothic horror--and the book that heavily inspired Stoker. I do believe that without Carmilla we would have no Dracula, and without Dracula and everything *it* inspired, we wouldn't have nearly as much fun at the movies or in the library. Therefore, Carmilla is Queen! Loved it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It feels a little weird to read girl-on-girl romance being portrayed realistically, especially at a time where being gay was not an open subject. At some points, in terms of lushness of the visuals and the dark ambiance, I think it's better than Stroker. Can't wait to finish it ]]></body>
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