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Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship - until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu's compelling tale of a young woman's seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e, which it predates by over a quarter century. \u003ci\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/i\u003e was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmen Maria Machado \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eIn the Dream House\u003c\/i\u003e, the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eThe Low, Low Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, and the award-winning short story collection \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e as a member of \"The New Vanguard,\" one of \"15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts \u0026amp; Heritage, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. 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