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✍️ Sheridan Le Fanu
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🏛 Wordsworth Editions 📅 2026 🌐 English 📔 Paperback 📐 Book ISBN: 9781840229714

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Before Dracula there was Carmilla, the queen of the sapphic vampires, created by the Irish author J. S. Le Fanu. Carmilla (1872) is a landmark in vampire fiction. This collection brings together Le Fanu's greatest short horror stories, all building towards his masterpiece, Carmilla, the chilling tale of a beautiful girl who came to stay...

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