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Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
Young Laura lives in an isolated Styrian schloss when a mysterious visitor named Carmilla joins her household. Their close friendship deepens as strange dreams, illness, and old histories unsettle the castle.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 33 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Laura, Carmilla, and the Schloss Household
Laura, Carmilla, and Their Companions
The Women of the Schloss and Bertha Rheinfeldt
The Childhood DreamAt six, Laura wakes in the castle nursery to a strange young woman kneeling beside her bed.
A Walk in the MoonlightCarmilla and Laura walk arm in arm beneath the moon after seeing the old portrait.
Laura’s Household and Visitors
The Schloss and the Karnstein Woods
The Schloss in StyriaThe remote family schloss stands among wooded hills and a broad moat.
This edition
- Title
- Carmilla
- Author
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- First published
- 1872
- Illustrated plates
- 76 original artworks · 33 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 17 · about 28,168 words
- Reading time
- 1 h 53 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
Neighbours in the library
Chosen by what they share with Carmilla — the same years.