Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • BookLikes (ISBN:B015RJNQPE)

Carmilla

by: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (author)

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Audible Originals brings you a brand new audiobook adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic novella, Carmilla - starring Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey), David Tennant (Doctor Who and Broadchurch) and Phoebe Fox (Life in Squares and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death).

One of the very first vampire thrillers, this audio adaptation follows 18-year-old Laura as she recounts the story of her mysterious, intriguing and beautiful house guest Carmilla, who is stranded in the forest after a carriage accident and taken in by Laura’s widowed father. The girls develop a friendship which turns into a passionate meeting of souls. A relationship of vampire and prey, the story is told through Laura’s eyes as she is drawn further into Carmilla’s terrifying world of pleasure and pain.

A masterpiece of erotic Gothic horror, Carmilla encompasses mystery, suspense, forbidden lust, violence...and lots of blood....

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Format: audiobook

ASIN: B015RJNQPE

Publisher: Audible Ltd.

Minutes: 142

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Epic Fantasy, Literature, Horror

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Lora Hates Spam rated it

5 years ago

http://LoraHatesSpam.booklikes.com Lora Hates Spam 4.0 Carmilla

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by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla pre-dates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years, but has some similar themes. It is the story of a young woman, Laura, who comes under the influence of a female vampire, who first comes to her when she is a child, comforting her in her bed. The narrative has the s...

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Reading Slothfully rated it

6 years ago

http://lgpiper.booklikes.com Reading Slothfully 3.0 Carmilla

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So, when I read Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, he made friends with a guy named Theo who was a naturalist, among other things. Gerry would visit Theo and talk about critters. Also, it seems, Theo had a wonderful library, one that included oodles of books about wild life, but also myst...

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Bark at the Ghouls rated it

6 years ago

http://BarkLessWagMore.booklikes.com Bark at the Ghouls 4.0 Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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This was my first reading of this classic tale of dark secrets written in 1872. 1872?! That fact stuns me after finally giving this a novella read. There is a quite a surprising amount of sexuality for such an ancient tome or did the world get ever more prudish as the years went by? There were lesbi...

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Wyvernfriend Reads rated it

7 years ago

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So this is a short book, today it would be a novelette and the publishers apparently decided that 85 pages of story needed a 37 page introduction and 72 pages of other matter. I should have skipped the other stuff. It turned the story into a school read and I was not well disposed to that. The foot...

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