Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” with Galen Canham

Part One:

Part Two:

Sources Cited:

Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado. Lanternfish Press. Available here.

“Unnameable Desires in Le Fanu’s Carmilla,” by Amy Leal. Syracuse University: https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1780/1779

Galen wants everyone to know that she knows Wikipedia is not a “proper academic source,” but “I’m not a proper academic, lol.” To which I say, fair, and also, I think we can all agree that Wikipedia’s a great jumping-off point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giaour

The Norton Anthology of English online

Lord Byron's Giaour 1813

https://web.archive.org/web/20050223100023/http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/romantic/topic_4/byron.htm

Books we recommended/discussed:

Anne Rice’s truly bonkers Sleeping Beauty series, especially the one she wrote as a direct “up yours” to the 50 Shades franchise: Beauty’s Kingdom, as A.N. Roquelaure

Buffy. I don’t need to link this for you, right, you know where to find Buffy.

TBH, just go pick up Carmilla so you can read all of Carmen Maria Machado’s footnotes! It’s like a whole bonus text-within-a-text!

XOXO