Carmilla

- AUTHOR: - He is an Irish writer. His origins are Norman, in France, Sheridan LE FANU was born in 1814 and died in 1873 (at 58 years).He was a lawyer and a journalist.He is an author of several kinds of literatures: novels, short stories, fantasy stories, ghost stories, detective novels and writings chronicling the threatening atmosphere of a haunted house.His works are numerous: The Last Heir of Castle Connor (1838), The Cock and Anchor (1845), The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien (1847), The Mysterious Lodger (1850), The Murdered Cousin (1851), The Watcher (1851), The Evil Guest (1851), The House by the Churchyard (1863), Uncle Silas (1864), The Tenants of Malory (1867), The Wyvern Mystery (1869), Chronicles of Golden Friars (1871), A Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay (1870), In a Glass Darkly (1872), Green Tea (1869), The Familiar (1872), Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872), Carmilla (1872), The Room in the Flying Dragon (1872). - FICTION: - CARMILLA is a fantastic fiction by the Irish writer Sheridan LE FANU.This fiction was published in 1872 in Ireland. It's a fantastic kind.The story recounts the adventures of the young and beautiful Carmilla woman.In a castle in Styria, with its dark rooms, lives Laura, a lonely and sickly girl.There was an accident near the old Gothic bridge, from which Carmilla arises. This stranger is facing Laura.Thereafter, a strange disease spreads in the region. Vampiric traces are found in the surrounding countryside and in the castle. Even, two girls are attacked in the same way.Carmilla has a mysterious behavior. She does her best to win Laura's friendship. The latter, despite the protection of her father, falls under the thumb of Carmilla, as paralyzed.Carmilla, half-woman, half-vampire, slowly kills Laura in a strange and familiar setting of ruins and desolate forests.The predator has its prey to the l