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About this audiobook
Twenty-five years before Dracula, a carriage overturned outside a lonely castle in Styria, and the girl who stepped out of it was called Carmilla.
Laura's father takes her in. Laura cannot stop looking at her. What follows is tenderness, then fever, then something worse…
J. Sheridan Le Fanu published Carmilla in 1872. A Victorian gothic horror built on a woman's desire for a woman, the first great lesbian vampire story in English. It survived a century that would have preferred it be forgotten.
The Tender Vice presents the novella as a full-cast audio drama. Every character is separately cast and performed, with original scoring and sound design throughout. Sapphic, atmospheric, slow-burning. Not a narration. A production.
The archive is open. The fire is lit.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (2.4K)
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GenreRomance, Horror
Length1 hr
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part 2 - Prelude
2Chapter 4 - Introduction
3Chapter 4 - Her Habits—A Saunter
4Chapter 5 - Introduction
5Chapter 5 - A Wonderful Likeness
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6Chapter 6 - Introduction
7Chapter 6 - A Very Strange Agony
8Chapter 7 - Introduction
9Chapter 7 - Descending
10Part 2 - Coda
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