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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.
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Charlotte Bronte of
Jane (yaawwwnnnn)
Eyre fame wrote gothic thrillers? Or have you confused her with sister Emily who wrote the brilliant
Wuthering Heights?