Carmilla

In an isolated castle, deep in the Austrian forests of Styria, Laura lives a solitary life with her father and a few servants. One moonlit night, a carriage crashes in the field, bringing an unexpected guest—a beautiful woman named Carmilla.... Laura and her father invite her to stay until she recovers. The lovely stranger accepts the offer. Strange events soon begin to occur: Laura falls ill, her condition worsens day by day, and she is tormented by fits of suffocation at night. After several torturous nights, young Laura is about to learn the shocking truth about the 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 novella "The Mystery of the Hotel 'Soaring Dragon'".