Carmilla - Couverture souple

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0979015618 ISBN 13 : 9780979015618

Editeur : Skeptic Press, 2012

Synopsis

The novella that inspired Bram Stoker to create Dracula. As the result of a nearby carriage accident, Laura and her father are persuaded to allow the apparently injured Carmilla to stay in their home for some months while recovering. At the same time, local peasant girls have been mysteriously dying, and Laura has been having intense nightmares which seem to correspond with her quickly degenerating health. Fearing for his daughter's life, Laura's father enlists help and sets out on a quest to 'cure' Laura of her affliction. Le Fanu's novella created a standard for vampire and gothic mystery fiction and served as inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, which was published twenty-five years later.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary man's collected papers. As I publish the case, in this volume, simply to interest the "laity," I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who relates it, in nothing; and after due consideration, I have determined, therefore, to abstain from presenting any précis of the learned Doctor's reasoning, or extract from his statement on a subject which he describes as "involving, not improbably, some of the profoundest arcana of our dual existence, and its intermediates." I was anxious on discovering this paper, to reopen the correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years before, with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems to have been. Much to my regret, however, I found that she had died in the interval. She, probably, could have added little to the Narrative _which she communicates in the following pages, with, so far as I can pronounce, such conscientious particularity_.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Lovely young Laura spends her days with her father, a retired civil servant, on the grounds of an idyllic castle in the coutryside.

When a carriage accident brings a friend to her door, Laura is overjoyed, but this friend, this Carmilla... is not what she seems. Odd happenings begin to occur around the castle. Laura remembers a dream she had as a young girl of a visitor in the night, she begins to see a strange cat that stalks her dreams, and then there is the mysterious portrait she finds...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Skeptic Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0979015618
• ISBN 13: 9780979015618
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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