True to the gothic form events unfold slowly and in murky light. Inside the castle the heavy suspense rises like dust from wall tapestries taken down for their five year beating. “In this solitude, having just listened to so strange a story, connected, as it was, with the great and titled dead, whose monuments were moldering among the dust and ivy round us, and every incident of which bore so awfully upon my own mysterious case - in this haunted spot, darkened by the towering foliage that rose on every side, dense and high above its noiseless walls - a horror began to steal over me, and my heart sank as I thought that my friends were, after all, not about to enter and disturb this triste and ominous scene.” Soon I swoon with the liquor of ruins and overgrown walks and moonlit nights and melodrama. Women are subject to flights of emotion that control them but which are barely understood. Women are ruled by emotion, men by reason, the cultural perceptions of gothic and victorian society. Gothic elements are all here and they work their magic. A painting of a long ago countess looks much like Carmilla. She sees or dreams or imagines that Carmilla is in her room. Yes, it seems this vampire has a bit of a titty fetish. Laura has oppressive dreams in which a figure bites her on the breast. The two young women recognize each other from a dream they had when they were young and with this bond they become companions. The 19 year old Laura who lives there visits the guest and the horror seeps out: “What was it that, as I reached the bedside and had just begun my little greeting, struck me dumb in a moment, and made me recoil a step or two from before here? I will tell you.”Īnd tell us she does. 1972Ī carriage overturns and a young woman is taken to the family schloss in Styria to recuperate.
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