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en-wikipedia-org-6677		Carmilla - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6573	596	68	Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72),[1][2] the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:[13][14] Although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than the generally considered master work of that genre, Dracula, the latter is influenced by Le Fanu's works: Robert Statzer's novel To Love a Vampire (ISBN 978-1721227310) depicts Carmilla's encounter with a young Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, the hero of Bram Stoker's Dracula, during his days as a medical student.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6677.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6677.txt