Carmilla
Carmilla DVD case

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Gothic novella Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest works of vampire fiction and is considered the original prototype of the subgenre of lesbian vampire fiction. The story is presented as a chapter from the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, an unorthodox physician who is perhaps literature’s first “occult doctor”. It is narrated by Laura, the protagonist, daughter of a wealthy Englishman living in retirement in a castle in the deep forest of Austria. She has vivid, persistent childhood memories of a beautiful visitor in her bedchamber. A dozen years later a carriage accident brings a mysterious injured young woman into their home; Laura immediately recognizes her as the figure from her memory. At the same time her father learns of the untimely death of the daughter of a colleague. Other young girls are succumbing to a puzzling malady. The arrival of an heirloom painting of Laura’s ancestor Mircalla, Countess Karnstein, bears an identical likeness to their visitor, who is secretive, romantically forward and sometimes moody. When Laura and her father journey to their ancestral village they meet hiscolleague, General Spielsdorf, who relates his own ghastly story of the discovery of the vampire who caused of his daughter’s death and is searching for the tomb of the Countess. The General unmasks Carmilla when she appears on the scene, which leads to the inevitable conflict and climax. Serialized in 1871-2 and published as a book soon after, the story has influenced many others since, not least Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw.

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Product Details

Read by: Elizabeth Klett
Length: 3 hours and 17 minutes
Type: Solo readings
Media: MP3 CD
Package: DVD box
Item No.: DB-1201
EAN: 0701236969191
List Price: $9.99

Credits

Production

Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: Kirsten Ferrari
Proof Listener: Barry Eads

Artwork
Cover: Illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Le Fanu's story Carmilla in The Dark Blue (January 1872), reproduced in Best Ghost Stories
Inset: Sheridan Le Fanu, January 1, 1873,author unknown
Insert: Illustration in Carmilla, by David Henry Friston (1820-1906)

The Recordings

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The Recordings

These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. The readings were recorded by members of Librivox.org, which has generously made the recordings available to the public domain. While Librivox condones the sale and distribution of these recordings, it is not associated with the management or operations of MP3 Audiobook Classics. The audio files have been lightly edited and have been engineered using professional audio tools for maximum sonic quality. We spend considerable time and effort to ensure the recordings are free of noise, equalized for maximum listener pleasure, and that tracks are leveled and normalized to provide a consistent listening experience.

Table of Contents

Track Chapter Length
01 Chapter 00: Prologue/Chapter 01: An Early Fright 13:56
02 Chapter 02: A Guest 17:52
03 Chapter 03: We Compare Notes 17:00
04 Chapter 04: Her Habits - A Saunter 24:17
05 Chapter 05: A Wonderful Likeness 8:50
06 Chapter 06: A Very Strange Agony 9:44
07 Chapter 07: Descending 13:40
08 Chapter 08: Search 8:03
09 Chapter 09: The Doctor 11:16
10 Chapter 10: Bereaved 6:57
11 Chapter 11: The Story 11:12
12 Chapter 12: A Petition 10:58
13 Chapter 13: The Woodman 11:28
14 Chapter 14: The Meeting 10:54
15 Chapter 15: Ordeal and Execution 8:44
16 Chapter 16: Conclusion 9:24

 

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