Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The cult classic that inspired Dracula

Great read! I absolutely loved this book, the language isn’t exactly what I’m used to so it was a bit difficult for me at times, but it was still a fun read even though it’s a relatively short book. The cover artwork is absolutely beautiful as well. 🩸🦇

This is an historic story, as it is the first Vampyre story. It is a great story. Having been written in 1872, the English is quite beautiful.It is only slightly sapphic. It is not a deluxe edition, nor is it illustrated. It is absolutely worth a read.

Lovely book, easy to understand even if you're like me and not familiar with reading classics. Would recommend!

This is a smallish book, a little over 8x5.5x.67 inches and only 160 pages, but in its hardback form it’s still a substantial size and beautiful enough to display in a home library or leave out in view on the bookshelf or coffee table. The dust jacket is gorgeous in matte black and red foil graphics. The story itself is thought to be one of the original vampire gothic novels and although it reads a little haltingly at first, as one becomes accustomed to the Victorian style of writing, the story becomes fully engrossing as it is suspenseful, horrific, and haunting, one which hurries the reader along at quite a clip as it coaxes the imagination to conjure vivid images of Laura’s ‘schloss’, the people in it, and the surrounding, secluded, heavily wooded Austrian countryside. Besides being a vampire story, I must say, there’s also some devious trickery and emotional manipulation afoot in this story (SURE that “woman” is Carmilla’s “mother! *giant eye roll* ), which will churn the reader’s emotions into a frothy tailspin. I first read this short novel when I was in high school and an avid library card user. Now I’m building my own home library collection which I knew would be incomplete without my very own copy of “Carmilla.” Buy this book. You’ll want to read it again.

I love this story, and have read it so many times over the years that my old copy is badly battered lol I decided to treat myself to a new copy.I love this cover, I think the glossy red against the matte black is very sharp, however my dust jacket came torn quite badly out of the box. Very disappointed by that. More care should be taken when packaging these items.

I got this expecting a slightly different story. Descriptions and reviews were quite off, based on those I viewed. I essentially was pulled in for the original vampire story.It's very well written. The writing style was quite amusing, to me. The story is a bit dry but kept me engaged. I found the ending a bit underwhelming.It very much challenged what I thought of vampires.

The contents are good, I just wish the cover was matte and as bright in color as shown in the ad image. The red is all a dark gloss that blends in with the black, making it hard to see the full image. The cover is also a dirt magnet and very easy to scratch. My first copy arrived with tears and grease on it. The second copy was acceptable but near impossible to completely clean.

Better than dracula