The Annotated Carmilla

The Annotated Carmilla

In 1872, fully twenty five years before Bram
Stoker finished his Dracula,
another Irish writer penned a vampire tale that created many new elements in
the genre.  Before Carmilla,
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, no story had told events from the victim's point of
view.  None had ever suggested to be bitten by a vampire might feel
erotic. 












Just as no story before had ever contained a
professional vampire hunter. 




Most agree it created the lesbian vampire genre.



But because the book was written so long ago, it references many things the
modern reader might not understand.  Where is Styria, for example? 
When one speaks of a horse carriage, what are the traces?  What is a
myrmidon?  












The Annotated Carmilla answers those questions and more.  More than four
hundred footnotes provide not only answers to obscure questions, but point out
patterns and questions not immediately obvious to the first time reader--such
as the pattern of when the full moon occurs in the story, which proves rather
important!  At the same time it points out the many unsolved mysteries in
the text, as well as some possible solutions.



Also included are long essays on the life of Le Fanu (this was his final work)
and the history of Carmilla amidst the vampire in film, television
and fiction.



Available at Amazon in kind format here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Annotated-Carmilla-ebook/dp/B0058V6MG2



Or you can get the softcover book right here:  https://www.createspace.com/3507727

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not of that other book above.

Strike it out!  Or write it in anew... But let my name be in the Book of
Love!"

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