![]() ![]() Carmilla fawns over Laura, calling her darling, and making Laura confused and uncomfortable. As the two girls meet, Laura and Carmilla, they hold hands, smile, and blush. This is the Victorian era, surely this isn’t a blatantly lesbian book? As I began to read it, though, I found more and more passages that were fairly straightforward. If you’re anything like me, you probably expect Carmilla to be pretty subtextual. This year I finally got around to it, and I think it makes the perfect quick sapphic Halloween read. ![]() ![]() I had been meaning to pick this book up for years, just based off that description, but I wanted to save it for an October read. Carmilla is a lesbian vampire novella that predates Dracula by over 25 years. ![]()
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