Status Updates From Carmilla [with Biographical...

"'How came the village to be deserted?' asked the general.
'It was troubled by revenants, sir; several were tracked to their graves and extinguished in the usual ways: by decapitation, by the stake, and by burning. But not until many of the villagers were killed.'"

"'I have been a woodsman here,' he answered in his patois, 'all my days. So was my father before me, and so on, as many generations as I can count. I could show you the very house in the village in which my ancestors lived."

"It was a bad family, and here it's bloodstained annals were written. It is hard that they should, after death, continue to plague the human race with their atrocious lusts."

"... Lastly came the sensations. One, not unpleasant but very peculiar, she said, resembled the flow of an icy stream against her breast. At a later time, she felt something like a pair of large needles pierce her painfully, a little below the throat. A few nights after there followed a gradual and convulsive sense of strangulation; then came unconsciousness."

"She was at first visited by appalling dreams; then, as she fancied, by a specter, sometimes resembling Millarca, sometimes in the shape of a beast, indistinctly seen, walking round the foot of her bed..."

"The ball was not over until the morning sun had almost reached the horizon. It pleased the Grand Duke to dance until then, so loyal people could not go away or even think of bed.
We had just made our way through a crowded parlor when my ward asked me what had become of Millarca. I thought she had been by her side, and she fancied she was by mine. The fact was, we had lost her."