This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. The general ambiguously concludes that he will discuss the circumstances in detail when they meet later. The general was supposed to bring his niece, Bertha Rheinfeldt, to visit the two, but the niece suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. Twelve years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter from his friend, General Spielsdorf. She later claims to have been punctured in her breast, although no wound was found. When she was six, Laura had a vision of a very beautiful visitor in her bedchamber. Laura, the teenaged protagonist, narrates, beginning with her childhood in a "picturesque and solitary" castle amid an extensive forest in Styria, where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower retired from service to the Austrian Empire. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult detective in literature. Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. The story is often anthologised, and has been adapted many times in film and other media. The novella notably never acknowledges homosexuality as an antagonistic trait, leaving it subtle and morally ambiguous. The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.
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