There are rumours of vampires and creatures that stalk the forests at night. An unexplained illness is taking the lives of young women and Laura experiences fever and unsettling visions. Laura is at once fascinated by Carmilla and appalled by her forward advances but she wades deeper into their friendship nevertheless. The young woman is Carmilla and when she and Laura meet, they experience a meeting of hearts and minds. Realising that the young woman injured in the accident can’t possibly continue her journey, Laura’s father agrees to take her under his wing until her mother can return. One day, while out walking in the forest, Laura and her father encounter a carriage accident. In a forest in Styria, eighteen-year old Laura lives alone with her father in a great castle. Twenty-six years before Dracula, there was Carmilla.
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