![]() ![]() But excitement fades to sadness and disappointment when Laura’s father receives a letter from the General informing him the visit is cancelled as Bertha is dead. But there’s change and excitement in the air with the expected arrival of General Spielsdorf and his niece/ward Bertha Rheinfeldt. This is a dull life for a young girl, and her isolation contributes to the events that take place. Laura stresses that she is lonely and isolated. She lives with her father and two older women who are companions. 3 miles to the west is an abandoned village with an equally abandoned chateau that was once owned by the now vanished, noble Karnstein family. General Spielsdorf’s schloss is 20 miles away. The forest is large, extending 15 miles to the right of the castle and 12 miles to the left. The remoteness of the castle is established immediately, but it’s more than just remote: it’s creepy. The gothic castle comes complete with a drawbridge and moat. ![]() Hesselius, but the body of the tale is told by Laura, whose English father, upon retirement from the Austrian service, purchased a remote castle located on the edge of a forest. The prologue establishes that the story comes from the notebook of a Dr. I really didn’t expect much when I picked up Carmilla, but I found myself drawn into this intense gothic tale. ![]() Sheridan Lefanu’s Carmilla predates Dracula by over 2 decades. “ But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.“īram Stoker’s Draculais the book that comes to mind when I think about vampyr novels, but J. ![]()
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