Carmilla: An Illuminated Edition

A new art book edition of the original vampire novel. The book that inspired Stoker’s DRACULA and pioneered depictions of queer longing in contemporary fiction, now elaborately illustrated and presented as a breathtaking slipcase-housed coffee table book.

The award-winning illustrator and graphic novelist Rosemary Valero O’Connell (LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME) brings a tender and menacing touch toa classic 19th century gothic horror novel suffused with unfulfilled romantic yearning between two young women. This sleek and hypnotic new edition features a captivating suite of full-page and spot illustrations, as well as an original introduction from the renowned author of dark fictions Poppy Z. Brite.

A stunning new entry in Beehive Books award-winning Illuminated Editions series, this oversized volume is housed in a foiled, die-cut, sculpturally embossed slipcase, printed on uncoated acid-free paper, and published in a 9＂ x 12＂ trim format.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was a pioneer of Victorian ghost stories and Gothic fiction. His most famous works centered women and explored cultural taboos of sexuality, gender non-normativity, and mental illness, and his writing is lauded for the restrained intensity of its portrayals of psychological repression. After his wife’s mysterious death in 1858, he ceased writing fiction for three years. Only after his mother’s passing in 1861 did he begin again and go on to write many of the stories for which he is most famous today, including Uncle Silas (1864) and Carmilla (1872). Throughout these later years, he took on a reclusive lifestyle, said to write only at night by the light of two candles. His life ended in 1873, when he supposedly ＂died of fright,＂ his death seeming to take after the stories he wrote. A master of craft, his stories continue to haunt audiences generations later. Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is a cartoonist and illustrator born in Minneapolis, raised in Zaragoza, and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Comic Art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2016, and has been making comics full time ever since. Her work has received two Eisner awards, four Ignatz awards, a Harvey, a Prism, a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, and a Printz Honor.