Carmilla By J.Sheridan Le Fanu
I am iffy, if the Irish author, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, wouldn’t have died early, hadn’t he sued Bam Stoker and many others, for blatantly nicking the plot premise of “Carmilla” and replicating into Dracula and so many others (both written and motion)!! 😊 Carmilla, a mid-1800s, first novel on female vampirism, tastefully captures the European wilderness, with the narrow roads, gothic bridge and the drawbridges. This gothic masterpiece, has been classified as one, displaying lesbianism, and accused of homophobia, which is quite vexing and questionable for me! Can’t two females, devoid of love, with a lacking childhood, find solace and ardour, in each other’s company? Yes, the love between the two, has been portrayed a wee erotically, but I didn’t find anything obscene or smut! I read the scenes between, the two repeatedly, and didn’t find anything vulgar, but for acute fondness for each other. Laura keeps talking of her antipathy for Carmilla, bu...