#le fanu

[zhalfirin]

Carmilla - Robert Sheridan Le Fanu Full vellum Bradel binding with slipcase

Book art - Alphonse Mucha Many thanks @notwhelmedyet for inspiring me towards Mucha for bookart

Materials used:

case board - museumsboard, white spine stiffener - cardboard gathering the case and laser printed cover decoration - white paper cover material - calf parchment

inner book text block paper - Schleipen fly 05, 115gsm endpapers - Chiyogami paper and Hahnemühle Ingres Bütten paper sewing material - linnen thread (flax) endbands - buttonhole silk (Gütermann) edge finish - head and foot edge polished Font's used Titel font - Boecklin's universe Chapter title, page count and drop caps - Amarante text body - Georgia

Slipcase case construction - grey board (1,5 and 1mm) covering materials - Tsumugi paper, Hahnemühle Ingres Bütten paper, Chiyogami paper

#bookbinding #Carmilla #le fanu #vellum binding #vellum #parchment #slipcase #Mucha #alphonse mucha #bookart #polished edges #this was a bit of a go for a vellucent binding #next time I'll try a treatment and see if it can be more clear #parchment bindings are always a bit nerve wrecking #also I improvised a new background because white parchment on white background is not really much of a contrast

[zhalfirin-binds]

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & The Vampyr by John William Polidori

This time I'm sharing pictures of a typeset I made for fellow @renegadepublishing friends to bind at an in-person-workshop dimitris_bookbinding_corner (at least some of the fancy pictures).

Look at one of the finished binds created by @celestial-sphere-press

Sooo, about this typeset, what can I say? It was a joy and a pain to create this typeset to meet certain requirements in page count and size as well as getting to use wonderful book illustrations by Alphonse Mucha. Some typos were found, others, well now they stare me in the eye...

While the chapter start pages for Carmilla (on the left) were simply the original frames and illustrations with the text replaced by the text of Carmilla, I wanted The Vampyr (on the right) to look the similar, but yet different from the first story. There was no way around sticking to Mucha, because, well, nothing else went as well with is style than his style. After some experimenting with different works of Mucha I went with his moon and stars cycle in addition to the 1903 cover the 'Paris illustre' and the lithography for Flirt biscuits by the company Lefèvre Utile (today still known as LU)' from 1899 to tie them together.

The Carmilla typeset is actually a merge with the main text sourced from Project Gutenberg and notes sourced from a version found at the University of Pennsylvania. (I also learned the word 'odylic' from these notes. Before I'd have considered it simply a typo XD)

#bookbinding #alphonse mucha #carmilla #the vampyr #le fanu #polidori #my typeset #did I ever mention typesetting is my least favorite part of fanbinding? XD

[disappointingcabbage]

Personally if a hot vampire showed up to my widower father’s castle and professed her love to me I’d let her turn me, actually. Laura’s just a coward.

#carmilla #le fanu #lesbian vampires? #yes please #Carmilla is hot as fuck

[cathyartie]

Carmilla (1872) in a nutshell

#carmilla #sheridan le fanu #le fanu #carmilla karnstein #carmilla 1872 #artist on tumblr #art #do not repost #carmilla and laura #lilo and stitch #meme #vampire #lesbian vampire #vampires #gothic #gothic literature #gothic lit memes #I have a dream #I’m here to tell #About a wonderful cautionary tale

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Hello supernatural creatures person what is your thoughts on Carmilla

Hello! What a fun question. I think that Carmilla the novel is fun but has a rather unsatisfying ending (I don't mean the Carmilla getting killed, necessarily, just the complete cutting away from the action). But Carmilla the character is a fantastic first generation literary vampire to me!

Folkloric vampires were rarely beautiful and rarely female. But folklore is full of beautiful supernatural women who want to drain your life force and it feels to me like LeFanu was drawing from actual vampire lore as well as some more broader folklore to create Carmilla, who is fantastically interesting:

She's a countess who died young, at the hand (or fang) of a vampire.

She's beautiful.

She only feeds on women.

She beguiles some of her victims to feed on them for a longer time while killing others quickly.

While she looks sickly when she has not fed, sleeps a lot during the day and prefers being up at night, she looks and feels fully alive.

Even in her coffin (where she sleeps in inches of blood) she looks as if she is alive and breathing, with her eyes open.

She can turn into a cat.

She's incredibly strong and persuasive.

It is particularly interesting to me that Carmilla, of all her victims and conquests, seems to genuinely prefer Laura. Her obsessive, adoring speeches do not seem subtle enough to be deceitful. Le Fanu mentions that slowly dying from being fed on by a vampire will turn you into one, so I think Carmilla fully intends to keep Laura at her side for all eternity. And it makes sense that she'd prefer Laura above everyone else. Because it is revealed that Laura shares Carmilla's bloodline. Slavic vampires almost always prefer feeding on their family members or spouses and the change from immediate family to a far removed descendant is delightful to me.

So yes, I genuinely adore her as the sire of all female literary vampires. Great stuff. But she should really work on her pseudonym game. The whole Mircalla/Millarca/Carmilla gambit is really not working for her

#carmilla #carmilla karnstein #laura babbles #anon #le fanu

[mirloquecanta]

just finished reading carmilla and i love how it was intended to be an anti lesbian story but all girls want a carmilla for themselves

#carmilla #le fanu #sheridan le fanu

[candont]

Renfield’s name appears only towards the end of the original typewritten draft of the novel; earlier, he is referred to mostly as “the flyman” or “the fly patient.” Sometimes there is a blank space where his name should be. A few times, he is called “Renfold.” Eighteen-Bisang and Miller conclude that his name probably came from “Rheinfeldt,” a name in Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampire novella Carmilla, which was published 25 years before Dracula, in 1872. Like Renfield, Bertha Rheinfeldt (yes, a woman; “Carmilla” mostly features women) is an early harbinger of the coming of a vampire—a first victim, a lost soul.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/out-from-the-shadow-of-the-vampire-on-chris-mckays-renfield/

#renfield #le fanu #dracula #flyman

[harbarytka]

Le Fanu knew that Shakespeare's storytelling tropes were gold way back in the 19th century

#sheridan le fanu #the house by the cemetery #le fanu #much ado about nothing

[god-of-this-new-blog]

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.” — Carmilla

#‘heyyyyy.. heyyyy.. how y’all doin’ audio plays #anyway sorry that this is not dn content. college has me in its clutches #I drew this for part of an assignment tho! so you guys may have this! #testing out new coloring techniques #I think I like the way it harmonizes all the colors! #anyway :D #Carmilla #Le Fanu #blood tw

[slownoodle]

The English seaside feels like the perfect place to read Gothic Literature.

#dark academia #literature #classic literature #booklover #gothic #gothic literature #carmilla #le fanu #sheridan le fanu #bram stocker's dracula #Dracula #stoker #bram stoker #seaside #Scarborough #english coast

[darkacademiaarchivist]

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don’t you see—each with their peculiar propensities, necessities, and structure.

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#something about this quote >>>>> #i just... #girlhood #carmilla #le fanu #joseph sheridan le fanu #carmilla novella #girlblogging #dark academia #light academia #lit student things

[psycheophiuchus]

I'm unveiling the second photograph from the story "Green Tea", which you can find in the book "ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 & 𝔒𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰"(Kickstarter on 13th October).

"An Evening with Lady Mary Heyduke"

(FR)

Seconde photographie, que je dévoile, de l'histoire "Thé Vert" , que vous pourrez retrouver dans le livre "ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 & 𝔒𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰" (Kickstarter le 13 octobre).

"Une soirée avec Lady Mary Heyduke".

#photography #fineartphotography #gothicnovel #gothic #dark art #le fanu #green tea

[dooareyastudy]

Books I have read in January 2023 & my opinion on them !

Discours sur les sciences et les arts, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes & Discours sur l’économie politique, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1749 & 1755 | Mentally preparing to (re)read The Social Contract next month.

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872 | Liked it! Kinda want to read more classics written in English!!

Mémoires, Louise Michel, 1886 | Very well written, a bit repetitive towards the end but really, what a woman ! Her writing shows just how full of life she was, even when she thought she had nothing left but a heart of stone after her mother died. I loved the descriptions of New Caledonia. Her ideas on revolution, especially the role of women - and life in general are still fresh. Really, the best book I have read this month.

Andréas and other stories, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1907-1927 | Nice short stories. The settings vary a lot so the atmospheres were very different but all of them were somewhat obscure and dark. I wasn’t a fan of Hofmannsthal’s poetry but those were much more to my taste!

The Stone Face,  William Gardner Smith, 1963 | I think this was recommended to me here but I am not sure. I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. The theme of the book is brave and interesting, considering the Algerian war of independance is still a very touchy subject in France (a lot of ppl don’t call it a war). But the narration is so didactic the book felt like a moral lecture (which I don’t need as I am an adult capable of critical thinking and drawing nuanced conclusions). Some details are just unnecessary and weird and not making any of this believable. It takes a lot away from the ending, which is more interesting and touching. Overall, the statements the book makes are lacking nuance and depth.

Sur Lautréamont, Maurice Blanchot, Julien Gracq et J. M. G. Le Clézio, 1987 | Forgot how much I loved Les Chants de Maldoror, kinda want to read it again.

L’évenement, Annie Ernaux, 2000 | I don’t know what to  think of this. Some really beautiful parts, some I didn’t really like  (authors writing about them writing is not my thing at all, even if in this book, it doesn’t  come off as self-centered all the time).  The ending is more bitter than I expected, which I liked (I saw the  movie inspired by the book last year and the ending felt a bit fake). Maybe it’s the kind of book that will stay in my mind for longer than expected but I doubt it.  

Une histoire de la Révolution française, Eric Hazan, 2012  |  In short, a good synthesis of many different authors who worked on the  Frenc Revolution. It has the quality of displaying various  interpretations of historical events and sometimes adding new  interpretation. Not as complete as Soboul’s book, not a ton of the  author’s original ideas. I knew a lot of what is presented already but  it was still a good read.

#posting this a bit late #do reads #do read list #book #books #bookblr #book rec #books rec #book recommendations #book review #reading #reading journal #rousseau #jean-jacques rousseau #carmilla #le fanu #sheridan le fanu #louise michel #andréas #hofmannsthal #hugo von hofmannsthal #the stone face #william gardner smith #sur lautréamont #lautréamont #maurice blanchot #julien gracq #le clézio #l'événement #annie ernaux

[onceuponbook]

Carmilla - A Vampira de Karnstein

Está próximo o momento em que saberás de tudo. Vais me achar cruel, muito egoísta, mas o amor é sempre egoísta; quanto mais ardente, mais egoísta. Não sabes como sou ciumenta. Tens que vir comigo, amando-me, para a morte; ou então me odeie, mas vem comigo, e me odeie na morte e depois dela.

Para quem não sabe, Carmilla é a precursora do que conhecemos hoje sobre o mundo vampírico, sendo ela a primeira vampira criada, antecedendo até mesmo o vampiro mais famoso que já existiu, Edward ops, Drácula.

Sinopse: Carmilla - A Vampira de Karnstein traz a história de uma jovem chamada Laura que vive uma vida solitária junto com seu pai até a chegada de Carmilla, uma mulher linda e misteriosa e Laura se vê encantada pela jovem mulher.

A medida que o tempo passa e a relação das duas se intensifica, acontecimentos estranhos envolvendo somente mulheres surgem no vilarejo em que Laura vive.

Opinião sincera sobre o livro (pode conter spoilers ou não): Por ser um conto antigo, imaginei que a leitura seria complexa e cheia de escritas muito complicadas, mas não, foi bem tranquila.

A história é muito envolvente e cheia de mistérios que te faz não querer parar de ler até que chegue o fim, e olha, é um livro bem curtinho, você consegue ler num dia ou até menos.

Se estiver interessado em ler, sugiro a compra desse livro na Amazon, só clicar nesse link, é o mais bonito que encontrei. Se você já leu, fique a vontade para falar sobre abaixo nos comentários!

#livros #booklr #booktok #books #acotar #rowan whitethorn #carmilla karnstein #carmilla x reader #laura #le fanu #sheridan le fanu

[elatril]

Carmilla

I am reading Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Engrossing. It is a pre-Dracula vampire story.

Your noble friend, the young lady at your right, has the sharpest tooth, -long, thin, pointed, like an awl, like a needle; ha, ha! With my sharp and long sight, as I look up, I have seen it distinctly; now if it hapens to hurt the young lady, and I think it must, here am I, here are my file, my punch, my nippers; I will make it round and blunt, if her ladyship pleases; no longer the tooth of a fish, but of a beautiful young lady as she is.

Little did he know.

#carmilla #le fanu #reading

[notsohappynotsosad]

This blog has no structure because it should be a Carmilla TV series fan blog, but unfortunately such show doesn't exist in this universe

#carmilla #le fanu #sheridan le fanu carmilla #sapphic #sapphic vampires