Le Fanú also was the father of the Gothic horror of Britain establishing the style of how that kind of literature would be written even on these days. Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either. Without Carmilla there weren't Dracula and due that maybe there weren't a vampire sub-genre in the horror books that now it's one of the strongest subjects in modern paranormal literature. Of course, that was a trick by the author but it worked since the book didn't have any trouble to be published in those times when there was a extremely close-minded attitude.Īnd certainly the importance of the book to the eventual sucess of Bram Stoker's novel was fundamental. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanú was ingenious in that, since when he was asked about, he just replied that it wasn't a homosexual situation since Carmilla was a vampire and due that, it was a creature without sexual genre. Some may wonder how it was possible to publish a book with lesbian issues in 1872.

So, it was a pioneer book in two subjects: Vampires and Lesbian literature. This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula.Īlso, it presented lesbian situations, easily one of the first open mentions of the topic in literature. But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

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