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Old 12th November 2005, 03:56 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Originally Posted by Kelpie
..."Carmilla" made vampires sexy for the first time, rather than being the rotting revenant of somebody's vile old woodcutter grandfather, as in most of the folk tales.
Ha, you seem to have in mind the story Wurdulak by Tolstoy, which was loosely adapted by Mario Bava as one of the episodes in his anthology Black Sabbath.
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...a neat little gothic thriller, which looks like something that may well have influenced Charlotte Bronte.
Charlotte Bronte of Jane (yaawwwnnnn) Eyre fame wrote gothic thrillers? Or have you confused her with sister Emily who wrote the brilliant Wuthering Heights?
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