Writing when same-sex relations were criminally punishable, Le Fanu (1814–1973) wrote stories full of psychological dread and forbidden attraction. His 1872 vampire novella “Carmilla” encoded sapphic seduction through atmosphere, wordplay, and deliberate ambiguity. It predates “Dracula” by twenty-five years and, to this day, defines sapphic gothic fiction.
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