Young Laura lives with her father, a retired military man, in a secluded castle among the picturesque forests of the Austrian Empire. She feels lonely after the news of the sudden death of Bertha, who could become the only friend.

But one day a stranger named Carmilla appears in the castle. Her carriage crashed on the way, and the girl's mother asks to shelter her wounded daughter for a while.

Laura and Carmilla spend a lot of time together, but the mysterious guest does not reveal anything about herself. Strange events soon begin to happen: Laura falls ill, her condition worsens every day, and nightmares torment her at night.

The long-awaited reprint of the classic vampire story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla is the first vampire thriller in literary history, written 25 years before Bram Stoker's famous Dracula. The novel has been filmed numerous times. There are over 3,000 editions and reprints of Carmilla in virtually every language of the world.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is often compared to Edgar Allan Poe, and his gothic novels and short stories have inspired horror writers for over a century.