Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla was a sensual and erotic horror story. I mean erotic in its most classically Gothic sense. It was thrilling and exciting and I couldn’t stop reading it. This was a superb read and one that I know I will return to again. I loved it so much I’ve added it to my list of old/first editions I’m looking to acquire!

I think this is the type of book that Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori would have been thrilled to read by Lake Geneva. Of course, it wasn’t published for another 56 years, but one can imagine.