A lonely girl is befriended, and slowly preyed upon, by a beautiful female vampire. Le Fanu's influential tale that predates Dracula.
Books mentioned in Carmilla (3)
Magia Posthuma by Karl Ferdinand von Schertz: “Magia Posthuma," "Phlegon de Mirabilibus," "Augustinus de cura pro Mortuis," "Philosophicae et Christianae Cogitationes de Vampiris," by John Christofer Herenberg; and a thousand others, among which I remember only a few of those which he lent to my father.”
De Mirabilibus by Phlegon of Tralles: ““Magia Posthuma,” “Phlegon de Mirabilibus,” “Augustinus de cura pro Mortuis,””
Philosophicae et Christianae Cogitationes de Vampiris by Johann Christoph Harenberg: “Magia Posthuma," "Phlegon de Mirabilibus," "Augustinus de cura pro Mortuis," "Philosophicae et Christianae Cogitationes de Vampiris," by John Christofer Herenberg; and a thousand others, among which I remember only a few of those which he lent to my father.”