History knows the 19-year-old, late-19th-century vampire as Mercy Brown. Her family, though, called her Lena. Mercy Lena Brown lived in Exeter, Rhode Island—“Deserted Exeter,” it was dubbed ...

Carmilla is a rather infamous vampire novella, with the story notable for predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by a quarter of a century. It introduced many of the tropes that Stoker's story helped ...