Carmilla
Ratings346
Average rating3.8
if carmilla sucks my blood do NOT drive a stake through her heart. she caught ME slipping. that is on ME.
i really, really wanted to like this book. it was okay, yet most of it was boring. i liked the notion of the book more than the actual plot. it just wasn't my thing unfortunately.
Me ha gustado el libro (más sabiendo que es uno de los primeros sobre vampiros) peroo el final podría haber sido diferente o un poco más trabajado no te voy a mentir me ha parecido un poco cutre y para ser vampiras lesbianas poco de eso ha habido :(
Qué diferencia hace leer un libro en el momento justo y no por obligación. La primera vez que leí Carmilla fue para un club de lectura, pero no tenía muchas ganas ni el mood para disfrutarlo. Ahora lo releí porque quería algo exactamente así: una historia que me hiciera sentir esa pasión y amor platónico, con una ambientación gótica y una villana tan increíble como Carmilla.
Me encanta, es la historia de una vampira lesbiana que solo se alimenta de mujeres, que mas se puede pedir.
Se nota que la historia de Dracula toma varios elementos de este relado, que se publicó decadas antes de el conocido clásico que todos conocemos.
Me gusta mucho la literatura gótica y sobre todo si es de vampiros. Es cortito, te mantiene interesada y tiene buen ritmo.
The first half of this book is a very interesting, mopdy, atmospheric read that really works. Unfortunately the second half is pretty much just a retelling of the first half except Le Fanu scrambled Carmilla into Millarca
i just KNOW joseph sheridan le fanu is rolling in his grave knowing that carmilla is now a lesbian icon
This was a nice little vampire book. The language of the time this was written read in modern day kinda adds to the mysticism of the vampire. Makes me want to read fantasy for some reason….
Estuvo bien para ser un relato. Esperaba más del pasado de Carmilla, paso todo tan rapido..
A good short gothic horror story for October. The story centers on a young woman who is having to deal with a female vampire. As with all vampire stories there is sexuality in their encounter. This leads to topics of the loss of innocence, love and lust, and female sexuality. The sexuality is more blatant than in Dracula. (Be warned if you don't want to avoid this topic.)
Overall, it is a nice read.
Contains spoilers
Her real name is Mircalla but she’s goes by Millarca and Carmilla. Glad to know the tradition of glaringly obvious anagrams for vampires didn’t begin with Count Alucard.
Carmilla was another one of my quick reads during early Fall 2024. The story was short and a bit slow-paced, but I enjoyed the slow uncovering of facts as the story went on. I think this is the book that started to get me out of my reading slump.
I tried reading dracula and it was a very boring experience but this was the opposite. love the queer themes and the way it's written but it didn't grip me like I hoped it would? (didn't read this in english so maybe the translation is at fault idk)
Very well written.
But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
really does not have either the epistemological or moral complexity of the other giants in gothic literature but this book is susceptible to an interpretation so disconcertingly anachronistically feminist that it seems almost more relevant to 1970s social politics than 1870s. Like I would not have been all that startled if Carmilla pulled out a Pussy Power enamel pin but maybe that is why Le Fanu is the author and I am writing a goodreads review
The tension Le Fanu creates in the telling of this tale is palpable. From what I've gathered, I feel like this book assisted in opening the door for vampire lore to take off in novels thereafter. Glad to have read this!
135 Pages, Classic vampire story before Dracula was even written (1872)! David N.
Fun Gothic queerness! I was expecting a little more on the annotation side of things, but Carmen Maria Machado's introduction was excellent context.
“Era como o ardor de um amante. Me constrangia. Era odioso e ao mesmo tempo poderoso. E com olhos ávidos, me atraía para ela, e seus lábios quentes passeavam pelas minhas bochechas em beijos. E ela sussurrava, quase soluçando: – Você é minha. Você será minha. Eu e você seremos uma só, para sempre.”
Mesmo não conhecendo muito a história dos personagens, eles conseguem nos envolver em suas tramas. Amei a caracterização da Carmilla, eu sentia a paixão dela pela Laura, e o jeito que foi escrito as interações entre as duas foi fascinante, eram muitos sentimentos e emoções expressas, no final ficava com um gostinho de quero mais.
Achei o final um pouco brusco, acho que poderia ter contado mais sobre a Carmilla e a família Karnstein, além de como a Laura lidou com o que aconteceu.
Honestly, this book was kind of a letdown.
Maybe it was just too hyped up for me, but I expected a lot more than what I got. I think the biggest problem was that this book was genuinely just too short. We didn't get enough time to build up the tension of Carmilla being revealed as a vampire, we didn't get enough time to build practically ANY romantic tension between Carmilla and Laura at ALL, and we got basically no time to build up the tension of Carmilla's execution.
Which was honestly pretty anticlimactic, by the way. There wasn't even a big fight between anyone; they just found out she was a vampire and killed her in her coffin. All the buildup (what little of it there was) and then they just easily staked her while she was sleeping.
The description of the book says it's “the foundation of the lesbian vampire myth” and while I understand queer relationships were written very subtly in that time for a reason...there just isn't one in this book. There are maybe 3 or 4 lines that can come across as romantic between Laura and Carmilla but the book was just so short that composing any type of romantic relationship between the two of them is just impossible.
Definitely a disappointment that doesn't live up to the hype.
Followed along with an ebook at the end and randomly four pages were missing from the audiobook so I might have accidentally listened to an abridged version. In my defense there was nothing to indicate that the audiobook was abridged at all so maybe it was just the beginning of the conclusion that was missing?
Other than the potentially missed pages I thought it was fun! It's a short spooky novella and it's a good fall read I'd say.