Before she leaves she sternly notes that her daughter will not disclose any information whatsoever about her family, past, or herself and that Carmilla is of sound mind.

Carmilla refuses to tell anything about herself or her background, despite questioning from Laura.

To revive herself, she tricks Charlotte ( the woman Meier Link loves ) into allowing her blood to be sucked by Carmilla.

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

Her name is Carmilla.

Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed.

Carmilla flees and the General explains to Laura that Carmilla is also Millarca, both anagrams for the original name of the vampire Countess Mircalla Karnstein.

Carmilla, the title character, is the original prototype for a legion of female and lesbian vampires.

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:

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 heavily influenced by Le Fanu's short story.

This collection contains five tales, one of which is " Carmilla ".

* French director Roger Vadim's Et mourir de plaisir ( literally And to die of pleasure, but actually shown in England as Blood and Roses, 1960 ) is based on Carmilla and is considered one of the greatest of the vampire genre.

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

* Carmilla is featured as the main antagonist in the 2009 movie Lesbian Vampire Killers, a comedy starring Paul McGann and James Corden.

* The novel is mentioned and referenced by some of the other characters in the 2011 movie The Moth Diaries ; Carmilla also seems to have inspired the main antagonist Ernessa, played by Lily Cole.

* According to director Dennis Gansel his film Wir Sind Die Nacht is his personal take on Carmilla.

* The story of Carmilla is illustrated using old antique etchings by Tiffini Elektra X in the book In This House: A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques.

* Carmilla ( a lesbian vampire ) is the leading character of most of the Italian comics by Francesca Paolucci ( published in Italy by EF Edizioni ).

She goes by the name of Laura, and Integra asks her if she is the vampire Carmilla.

* In Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Carmilla is a villain and patron of the vampire Meier Link.

* In six of the Castlevania games ; Circle of the Moon, Rondo of Blood, its PSP remake Dracula X Chronicles, Simon's Quest, Judgment, and Lords of Shadow ; there is a female vampire named Carmilla ( also spelled Camilla in Circle of the Moon ).

* There is a Japanese lesbians ' magazine named after Carmilla, as Carmilla " draws hetero women into the world of love between women ".

Some in the household, the butler and a doctor, suspect what might be happening, especially in the wake of several local girls suddenly dying, but Carmilla kills each one.

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

* Julia Black-adoptive mother of Carmilla Black, former ties to Symbionese Liberation Army, currently deceased

* Timothy Black-adoptive father of Carmilla Black, former ties to Symbionese Liberation Army, currently deceased

The portrait resembles Carmilla exactly, down to the mole on her neck.

The General and Carmilla both fly into a rage upon seeing each other and the General attacks her with an axe.

* The British Hammer Film Productions also produced a fairly faithful adaptation of " Carmilla " titled The Vampire Lovers ( 1970 ) with Ingrid Pitt in the lead role and Madeline Smith as her victim / lover.

In present day, Carmilla saves a girl named Laura from being raped and later gives her Le Fanu's book to read to explain her past.

Fascinating erotic fixations are evident in Sheridan le Fanu's classic novella Carmilla ( 1872 ) which features a female vampire with lesbian inclinations who seduces the heroine Laura whilst draining her of her vital fluids.

This led to her appearing in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and as the vampire, notably in Carmilla and Brides of Dracula.

Fugitives from the Martians, Killraven and his Freemen — his African-American " mud-brother " M ' Shulla Scott, the cynical and bitter Native American Hawk, and the slow-witted strongman Old Skull — meet and incorporate into their group the feisty scientist Carmilla Frost and Grok, the deformed, apelike clone of her father.

Faking a carriage break-down, Marcilla's mother leaves her ( now using the alias Carmilla ) at the residence of a Mr Morton.

Here, Carmilla befriends and seduces Morton's daughter Emma ( Madeline Smith ) but her need to feed overcomes her emotional attachment and Emma too begins to fade.

Perrodot is a vampire then persuaded him ( with her womanly charms ) to remove the garlic protecting Emma, Carmilla goes to Emma's bedroom.

Perrodot begs Carmilla to take her instead.

Carmilla kills her in front of the horrified Emma.

Carmilla flees to her nearby ancestral castle, now a ruin.

Carmilla sleeps much of the day, and seems to sleepwalk at night.

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