![]() ![]() It is not long before Laura finds herself falling in love with Carmilla, despite her religious upbringing and internal struggle with her orientation. Carmilla is too ill to travel further, and as her mother must depart quickly, she leaves Carmilla in Laura’s family’s care.Ĭarmilla is an eccentric, sickly woman who enchants Laura and her family with her stories and her charisma. Within the carriage are a mother and her daughter, Carmilla, who appears to be the same age as Laura. Her world is turned upside down when a carriage accident occurs outside her home. Laura is a lonely young woman who lives in a grand estate with her father and her two governesses. SD Simper, an author of various dark fantasy novels with lesbian relationships within them, decided to take this story into her own hands and make it even more romantic. Despite the fact that they are both women during an era where homosexuality was mostly considered illegal, their relationship is not condemned by any of the other characters until Carmilla’s vampirism comes to light. What’s more, “Carmilla” contains a destigmatized lesbian love story between the main character and narrator, Laura, and the vampiress Carmilla. Pride Month has begun, and what better quintessential story to begin the month with than a retelling of “Carmilla”? “Carmilla” was a novella written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 26 years before Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” and it set the tone for many vampire novels and legends to come. And I shall never be in love with anyone, I think unless it shall be with you.” ![]()
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