In Sheridan Le Fanu’s CARMILLA, Laura, the socially isolated daughter of a wealthy Englishman living in an Austrian castle, befriends the mysterious Carmilla, who exhibits a number of disturbing traits and habits.
Carmilla features a female protagonist, a female vampire, the mutual attraction between the pair, and the appearance of literature’s first occult investigator, Dr. Hesselius, who would serve as Bram Stoker’s model for Dr. Abraham Van Helsing in DRACULA.
This Cryptoversal TokenBook includes “Dracula’s Guest,” a posthumously published short story by Bram Stoker that scholars believe to be a reworked version of the original first chapter of DRACULA, bridging Le Fanu’s work with hi...