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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 by 26 years.Le Fanu presents the story as a part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him because of the first occult detective in literature.Laura, the teenage protagonist, narrates, beginning together with her childhood during a "picturesque and solitary" castle amid an in depth forest in Styria, where she lives together with her father, a wealthy English widower retired from service to the Austrian Empire. When she was six, Laura had a vision of a really beautiful visitor in her bedchamber. She later claims to possess been punctured in her breast, although no wound was found.Twelve years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset ahead of the castle when her father tells her of a letter from his friend, General Spielsdorf. the overall was alleged to bring his niece, Bertha Rheinfeldt, to go to the 2, but the niece suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. the overall ambiguously concludes that he will discuss the circumstances intimately once they meet later.Laura, saddened by the loss of a possible friend, longs for a companion. A carriage accident outside Laura's home unexpectedly brings a woman of Laura's age into the family's care. Her name is Carmilla. Both girls instantly recognize the opposite from the "dream" they both had once they were young.Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and can't be delayed. She arranges to go away her daughter with Laura and her father until she will return in three months. Before she leaves, she sternly notes that her daughter won't disclose any information whatsoever about her family, past, or herself, which Carmilla is of sound mind. Laura comments that this information seems needless to mention, and her father laughs it off.Car