Carmilla, My Love: The Vampire Speaks (Pocketbook)

Carmilla, the vampire, silenced no more.

In Carmilla, My Love, the infamous vampire of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's haunting novella finally claims her voice-seductive, sorrowful, and spellbinding. Told from Carmilla's own perspective in lush, lyrical prose, this reimagining is not merely a retelling, but an intimate confession: of centuries of hunger, of a love that defies death, and of the dark rapture that entwines predator and beloved.

When Carmilla enters Laura's world under moonlight, the tale that unfolds is both familiar and transformed. Every nocturnal visit, every fevered dream, every bite of desire is rendered in hypnotic detail-rich in eroticism, shadow, and sorrow. This is a gothic romance that burns slow and deep, a story where death is a kiss and love is a haunting.

The Vampire's Unforgettable Story:

• A Literary Resurrection: Rooted in the atmosphere and structure of the 1872 original, yet expanded into a fully voiced narrative of erotic yearning and psychological complexity.
• The Vampire's Confession: Carmilla emerges not as a monster, but as a tragic heroine-her narration offering insight into immortality, temptation, and the toll of eternal restraint.
• Sapphic Desire in Full Bloom: The bond between Carmilla and Laura-yearning, terrifying, exquisite-is no longer subtext. It is central, tender, and devastating.
• Dark Elegance: From ruined chapels to candlelit chambers, the prose evokes the grandeur of the gothic tradition while revealing its erotic heart.
• Sensual and Soulful: Explicit in desire, erotic without vulgarity, haunting without horror, this is a vampire tale for those who crave beauty laced with blood and meaning.

Included in this edition is a penetrating Foreword by Dante Remy, exploring the lineage of vampire myth, the erotic symbolism of blood and ritual, and the enduring power of sapphic gothic literature. For those drawn to the art of seduction, shadow, and literary transformation, Carmilla, My Love is both homage and revelation.

For readers of Sarah Waters, Angela Carter, Sheridan Le Fanu, and lovers of sapphic, sensual gothic fiction.

She does not just feed. She remembers. She dreams.

And now, at last, she speaks.