Carmilla

In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. Scantily enough ours would have answered among wealthy people at home. My father is English, and I bear an English name, although I never saw England. But here, in this lonely and primitive place, where everything is so marvelously cheap, I really don't see how ever so much more money would at all materially add to our comforts, or even luxuries. "Carmilla" is a Gothic short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanyu. She was published in 1872 when she talked about her desires. "Carmilla" was released 25 years earlier than "Dracula" by Bram Stockholm and was adapted many times for cinema.