Carmilla | Gothic Horror Novella Review
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Looking for a claustrophobic setting with Vampires before the time of Bram Stoker's Dracula? Well, look no further than Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 work Carmilla - the Vampire!
Books Mentioned:
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
1872
Free Carmilla eBook: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007
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0:00 Introduction
0:54 Sheridan Le Fanu
3:02 Gothic Horror Genre
4:49 Carmilla
12:04 In Summary
Great review Fred! This is one of my favorites. Slightly better than Dracula, which is also a favorite of mine.
Thanks Chas. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this novella :)
Great review. I do have a copy of the book. Your review makes me want to read it soon
I really enjoyed this novella. The suspense, the dialog, everything in it was great :)
Such a great detailed review thanks Fred 👍
Thanks! I really enjoyed the novella, I would recommend it :)
Le Fanu is my favorite classic ghost story writer. A lot of the ghost stories feature characters who can't forgive themselves for some past mistake and haunt themselves to death. There are also a lot of stories where characters are just drunk off their asses and keep seeing things. Mixed bag but always well-written.
I will definitely have to pick up more works from him then (but I'll stay away from the drunkard ones :) ). I really enjoyed this novella :)
Wonderful review, Fred. I’d like to read this novel now. Thanks for such a thoughtful review.😊
Thanks Pat! It's a great book - I highly recommend it :)
You have certainly sold this. I really want to read this now 😊 Nice review.
It's a great read, and it's available on Project Gutenberg :)
Great review. I enjoyed the story, fun read 👍. Only missing piece for me was no explanation who the mother was, or I missed it. Reading it next week again for horror mayhem so may find the answer this time 😎
Thanks! I wonder if there's a sequel about the mom. She was definitely mysterious. Glad to hear you're going to re-read it for Horror Mayhem :)
Great review. I read this last year and then read Dracula straight after, I prefer Stoker's writing but thought this was actually a better reading experience because it is so much better paced and structured.
Thanks Aaron! I found it hard to keep up with Stoker's Dracula. Maybe it's because I was reading the wrong version. I'll have to find an edited edition and try it again :)
Terrific review, Fred! 🎉 I loved how you shared information about the author and elements of gothic horror. Carmilla sounds like a book I would enjoy reading. 😊
Thanks Kat! Carmila is a quick and engaging read, I'm sure you would enjoy it :)
Great review! Made me want to read it, and happily, it is free online at Project Gutenberg, so I will likely read it soon. I just started Frankenstein yesterday, so will finish it before I try Carmilla, but both appear to be fairly short reads. Thanks as always!
Carmilla is a great novella, as is Frankenstein. I read the 1831 edition of Frankenstein and enjoyed it as well :)
Gothic novels are such great reads. You might like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights (if you don't mind the romance aspects). No one talks about the scandalous things we see in the classics...lol.
Was it ever scandalous! I was surprised to have read this in a novel from 1872 - wow, the Victorian age writers were more liberal than I thought :)
Interesting commentary. I haven't read a lot of Gothic horror yet, but a couple years ago, I bought cheap collections of several of those authors' works for my e-reader. I need to finally get around to checking them out. And for some reason, I kept hearing NIN's "Closer" play toward the end of your review. 😳😁
I have a bunch of collected works on my eReader as well (Poe in particular). Oh my! I'm listening to NiN's Closure now. Lol, Bryan! 😆
5:12 They live in a Schloß (german word for castle/manor)
Thanks! I remember looking that up, but strangely forgot what it was called when I did the video :p
I enjoyed it as well when I read it years ago. Another nice episode!
Thanks Thomas! Wow, my only regret was that I hadn't read it years earlier :)
A vampire???? No way! I never would have guessed that 😉
Hah! Yup, and not the nosferatu that's ugly and stinky. Carmilla was quite the opposite :)
Nice review Fred! Are you going to paricipate in March of the Mammoths?
Thanks Todd. No, unfortunately I won't be able to participate in any March specific reading events. Goodness knows I've got some mammoths I need to read though :)
Read this recently in my effort to catch up on Gothic fiction. Still wondering about that mother character….
She is still quite a mystery. It's unfortunate that there was no follow up to this novel that focused on her. Wait, at least not to my knowledge anyway :p
I actually have the same edition that you have.
From Project Gutenberg? It was a great read - I'm glad I read it. :)
I read this last April and unfortunately, I didn't like it. I didn't get along with the writing. He did this thing where he would repeat distinctive words in the same sentence, or use the same words in back to back sentences. That has always been a pet peeve of mine. It feels like lazy writing. I'm glad you liked it though! ❤
That's too bad. Oh well, books are subjective, but luckily they aren't divisive between us :)
@@ReadbyFred Absolutely! ❤