The vampire novel that came twenty-six years before Dracula, and the queer one. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla arrives at a lonely Austrian schloss and attaches herself to Laura, and the book has never really left the culture since.

A hardcover in Union Square's Signature Gilded Editions, with sprayed edges, coloured end papers, an embossed foil cover and a ribbon marker. 240 pages. This edition also carries The Room in the Dragon Volant.

For the gothic reader. The one who found it through Carmen Maria Machado. The friend who reads in October.