Carmilla

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”

“I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all as divers see what is going on above them: through a medium dense and rippling, but transparent.

I cannot call it a nightmare, for I was quite conscious of being asleep. But I was equally conscious of being in my room and lying in bed, precisely as I actually was.