Carmilla

In a castle isolated from the outside world, deep in the Austrian woods of Styria, Laura leads a solitary life with her father and a few servants. One moonlit night, a carriage crashes in the field, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. Laura and her father invite her to stay with them until she recovers. The beautiful stranger accepts the offer. Soon, strange events begin to unfold: Laura becomes ill, her condition worsens with each passing day, and she suffers from choking fits at night. After several torturous nights, young Laura is about to learn the shocking truth about her mysterious guest.
«Carmilla» is a gothic novella from 1872 by Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the first works of vampire literature, written a quarter of a century before Bram Stoker's «Dracula» (1897).
The edition also includes the story «The Secret of the Inn "The Soaring Dragon"».