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Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria
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David Brian takes the original story and expands on it (for better and worse if I'm honest). It adds char…more

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Jordy
Sep 13, 2025 rated it liked it
This was a re-read. I remember liking it a LIT more than I did this time around but I'm wondering if maybe that was just because I didn't have as easy of access to other sapphic books at the time.

Originally I remember thinking David Brian did a great job at blending his writing with Le Fanu's but this go around I'm realizing the final chapters felt so deeply out of place and modernized in a way that's hard to explain.

I didn't hate the retelling, but I definitely feel like the story of Carmilla
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