Carmilla

In the castle isolated from the outside world, deep in the Austrian forests of Stiria, Laura leads a secluded life with his father and few servants. Once the moonlit in the field is broken by a carriage, taking the unexpected guest - the beauty Carmilla. Laura and father invite her to stay with them until she gets better. A wonderful stranger accepts an offer. Soon, strange events begin to take place: Laura gets sick, her condition worsens every day, and at night the attacks of suffocation torment. After several painful nights, the young Laura will have to find out the shocking truth about the mysterious guest.

“Carmilla” - the Gothic short story of 1872 of the Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanya and one of the first works of the literature on vampires, written a quarter century earlier than “Dracula” by Bram Stoker (1897).
The publication also includes the story The Secret of the Hotel The Falling Dragon ".