Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 25 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), [1] [2] the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla.
Curiously despite the Brides being centuries older, Dracula gave Lucy command over them, likely because of her resistance to religious symbols due to being turned in a modern era. Dracula and his brides make a cameo appearance in the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story "Night of the Living Gingerbread". [25]
Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.She is the 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy family and is Mina Murray's best friend. Early in the story, Lucy gets proposed to by three suitors, Arthur Holmwood, John Seward, and Quincey Morris, on the same day.
In the course of the novel, Holmes determines that Van Helsing set up various complex deceptions to create the illusion of Dracula as a vampire, killed Quincey Morris because he realized the truth, hired an actress to pose as the vampire Lucy to reinforce his deception and blackmailed Jonathan and Mina to assist him due to their role in the ...
The film was a co-production between Hammer and American International Pictures, who were interested in a vampire movie with more explicit sexual content to take advantage of a more relaxed censorship environment. It was decided to adapt Carmilla. [3] Harry Fine and Michael Style were the two producers.
But it is the women who occupy the dramatic high ground in this “Dracula,” beginning with Mia Hutchinson-Shaw as Lucy Westenra, who spends the bulk of her onstage time writhing and screaming ...
The first, most famous and perhaps only example of an early Hollywood lesbian vampire film is 1936's “Dracula’s Daughter,” Universal Pictures’ follow-up to its massive 1931 hit “Dracula ...
The Vampire Lovers (1970), set in 1794 Styria, starred Polish-born Ingrid Pitt as lesbian vampire Countess Mircalla Karnstein (born 1522, died 1546). The film was based on the famous 1872 novella "Carmilla" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; [1] the name Mircalla being an anagram of Carmilla, which is an alias Mircalla uses throughout the story.