#sheridan le fanu

[maeowl]

“Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so.”

carmilla (stone) lithograph | prints here

[shisasan]

Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (originally published 1872)

[draculathedansemacabre]

Yeah, folks, all of us here at Dracula: The Danse Macabre are going to need you all to listen to this prologue and trailer for @re-dracula's adaptation of Carmilla.

And then join us in absolutely freaking out about it, oh my god!!!!!

[dyingnome]

Karnstein Ruins - concept art for a project based on Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

[cathyartie]

Toxic Yuri my beloved

[avatarchai]

Cover illustration and design for Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 🦇❣

[ariannafarricella]

Carmilla and Laura!

After 6 years, I wanted to see how my style is changed with drawing them.

Also, I admit, I miss them quite a lot.

[enchantedbook]

'Carmilla' for Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic novel illustrated by Isabella Mazzanti

[monstrousdesirestudy]

Honestly can’t stop laughing at how half assed Carmilla was about changing her identity. Like first she was Mircalla and then she was like “nvm my name is uhhhhh…Millarca. Yeah. That sounds right” and then years later “fuck it my names Carmilla, none of these bozos have caught on yet.”

[maryqos]

joseph sheridan le fanu, carmilla.

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Carmilla is a Lesbian and uses she/her pronouns!

[corvidcrowned]

Read carmilla recently<3

[dyingnome]

A few more Carmilla sketches

[cathyartie]

Girlie got friend zoned, sibling zoned, cousin zoned in one book that’s crazy

Based on Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

“Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardor of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet over-powering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips traveled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, "You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever." Then she had thrown herself back in her chair, with her small hands over her eyes, leaving me trembling.”

“Are we related," I used to ask; "what can you mean by all this? I remind you perhaps of someone whom you love; but you must not, I hate it; I don't know you–I don't know myself when you look so and talk so."

She used to sigh at my vehemence, then turn away and drop my hand.”

[nobordersonlybuttcheeks]

I’m baffled at how pretty much all adaptations of the vampire Carmilla (and many female vampires written with her as the direct inspiration) depict her as a mature seductive lady. Are they only using her name and actually writing a vampire based on the alleged (very alleged) stories of Bathory? Because the actual Carmilla in the novel was a young, lonely, clingy, highly emotional and endearingly strange lesbian woman with major mood swings and fits of anger.

[weirdlookindog]

Leonor Fini (1907-1996) - Carmilla, 1983

illustrations for Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 classic gothic novella