A review by will_cherico
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

4.0

Carmilla immediately struck me as super interesting because of the way she treats her victims with a level of emotional and sexual empathy that Dracula could never have. It's a surprisingly feminist work, too: the patriarchs are depicted as what they really are, that being just as possessive and manipulative as Carmilla. Laura's lesbianism is handled in such a sympathetic way that makes the horror of Laura's being pulled in two different directions so much more upsetting.