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

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

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