AN EARLY FRIGHT
Written twenty-seven years before Dracula; Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, was the novel that established the archetypal canon of vampire literature.
Bram Stoker took too many elements from Carmilla to transfer them to Dracula, who ended up becoming the most popular paradigm unfairly overshadowing the original source: (Carmilla).
Like the Count of Transylvania, Carmilla was adapted to the cinema on numerous occasions. However, no film version has been faithful to Sheridan Le Fanu's novel.
Instead, the work that we present here in comic or graphic novel format does.
It is totally faithful in characters and order of events, essential to transmit the esoteric message that it contains in line with the artistic trends of the Victorian era: The idealistic, occult Symbolism but with a fresh and renewed spirit that adds dynamism and connects with contemporaneity.
Furthermore, without altering the narrative integrity of Carmilla, the co-author of this graphic novel has developed unpublished scenes with certain characters. of which we do not know what happened to his fate at the end of Le fanu's story.
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