backwards and in high heels and for longer than Dracula’s even been around. (For more of Nerdist’s Vampire Week, click here!) Ingrid Pitt's Carmilla looms over a victim's neck on the poster ...

Carmilla Karnstein ... (this is definitely not targeted for young kids), I didn’t find The Batman vs. Dracula to be especially compelling or exciting. At best, it’s pretty goofy; at worst ...

Published in 1872, Carmilla is credited for being the first vampire in literature, predating Count Dracula by 27 years. The novella was written by Sheridan Le Fanu and is a Gothic tale of two ...

Most scholars agree that Carmilla heavily influenced Dracula, as elements of the first appear in the latter, though modified or amplified. The aesthetic of the female vampire, for example ...

But just like that infamous quote about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, another vampire has been doing everything Dracula did ... enthralled and disturbed by Carmilla and her own feelings towards ...