Status Updates From Carmilla

"The effect of the full moon in such a state of brilliancy was manifold, she said. It acted on dreams, it acted on lunacy, it acted on nervous people; it had marvelous physical influences connected with life."

"We sat down on a rough-hewn bench under a group of magnificent lime-trees. The sun was setting with all its melancholy splendor behind the sylvan horizon, and the stream that wound through many a group of noble trees and past our feet, reflecting in its current the fast crimson of the sky.
- Imagine it, reader: a river of blood."

"Imagine, reader, the beautiful woman snarled up in the bed-slats, smelling the nurse's breath as she lifted the bed-skirt."

"This was the sensation that woke me: as if two needles ran into my breast very deep at the same moment.
I cried loudly. The lady started back, her eyes fixed on me, then slipped down upon the floor and, I thought, hid herself under the bed."

"It was only then that I saw the solemn but very pretty face looking at me from the side of the bed.
The young lady was kneeling with her hands under the coverlet. I looked at her with a kind of pleased wonder and ceased whimpering. She caressed me with her hands and lay down beside me on the bed. She drew me towards her, smiling; I felt immediately soothed, and fell asleep again."