A young woman is preyed upon by a mysterious female vampire — predates Dracula.
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Published 26 years before Dracula, Carmilla invented the rules of vampire fiction — and then buried them under something far stranger and more unsettling.
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An Early Fright In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. Scantily enough ours would have answered among wealthy…
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