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Before Dracula ever opened his coffin, a woman had already rewritten the rules of the undead.
Published in 1872, Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla is one of the most striking Gothic novellas ever written: atmospheric, sensuous, and daringly intimate in its portrayal of forbidden desire between women.
In this special edition, author Ariane Saltoris uncovers the ancient bloodline behind the world’s first modern vampiress with an exclusive original essay, She Who Came Before Dracula: The First Vampire Was a Woman — a journey through mythology, folklore, cultural fear, and the long-standing demonization of the female body.
Saltoris traces Carmilla’s heritage from Lilith to Lamia to the blood-soaked rituals meant to keep women from rising from their graves, revealing how patriarchal terror and fascination shaped the earliest vampire myths — and how Carmilla resurrects them with breathtaking force.
Bold, poetic, and unapologetically dark, this edition invites you to meet Carmilla not as a warning, but as a returning power: seductive, unstoppable, and centuries older than Dracula.
Some women refuse to stay dead.
Carmilla is one of them.
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