118 Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu — The One with the Lesbian Vampire

Book Club with Julia and Victoria

Julia is truly bamboozled, Victoria embraces that she is a vampire girlie, and they both dig into the context of Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla, edited with commentary by the absolute legend Carmen Maria Machado.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Carmilla (1872) episode of Queer As Fact

The Museum of Jurassic Technology

“A Perfectly Normal Interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine” by Theodore McCombs (Electric Literature)

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

080 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series

Carmilla web series

European Travels for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss

Carmilla the First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee

Recommendations:

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Tár (film)

F(r)iction – The Monsters Issue

Interview with the Vampire series on AMC

Gentleman Jack series on HBO

Currently Obsessed

My Invented Country by Isabel Allende

Yellowjackets on Showtime

Normal Gossip (podcast)

Past Lives (film)

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun