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Films

 * Danish director Carl Dreyer loosely adapted Carmilla for his 1932 film Vampyr but deleted any references to lesbian sexuality. The credits of the original film say that the film is based on In A Glass Darkly. This collection contains five tales, one of which is "Carmilla". Actually the film draws its central character, Allan Gray, from Le Fanu's Dr. Hesselius; and the scene in which Gray is buried alive is drawn from "The Room in the Dragon Volant".


 * French director Roger Vadim's Et mourir de plaisir (literally And to die of pleasure, but actually shown in England as Blood and Roses, 1960) is based on Carmilla and is considered one of the greatest of the vampire genre. The Vadim film thoroughly explores the lesbian implications behind Carmilla's selection of victims, and boasts cinematography by Claude Renoir. The film's lesbian eroticism was however significantly cut for its US release.


 * A more-or-less faithful adaptation starring Christopher Lee was produced in Italy in 1964 under the title La cripta e l'incubo (Crypt of the Vampire in English).


 * The British Hammer Film Productions also produced a fairly faithful adaptation of "Carmilla" titled The Vampire Lovers (1970) with Ingrid Pitt in the lead role and Madeline Smith as her victim/lover. It is the first installment of the Karnstein Trilogy.


 * The novella served as a very loose basis for the 1971 film Let's Scare Jessica to Death.


 * The novella was freely adapted in Spain in 1972 as The Blood Splattered Bride (La Novia Ensangrentada), directed by Vicente Aranda.


 * The theme of lesbian vampires was further explored in Vampyres (1974) by José Ramón Larraz.


 * The story was a partial basis for the 1978 Mexican horror film Alucarda.


 * In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled "Carmilla", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States. It starred Meg Tilly as Carmilla and Ione Skye as a lonely Southern girl whom Carmilla seduces.


 * The story was very loosely adapted in the 2004 straight-to-video splatter movie Vampires vs. Zombies.


 * Carmilla appears as the "Bride of Dracula" in the direct-to-DVD animated movie The Batman Vs. Dracula (2005).


 * Carmilla is featured as the main antagonist in the 2009 movie Lesbian Vampire Killers, a comedy starring Paul McGann and James Corden.


 * Carmilla (2011 film) is a Vampire Romance film directed by Paul Wiffen and starring Jennifer Ellison and Simone Kaye. However, announcements and updates regarding the film have ceased as of 2010, with the ultimate appearance that the film has been cancelled, or at the very least caught in some stage of development hell.


 * Styria (currently in production) is an upcoming film inspired by Carmilla, directed by Mauricio Chernovetzky and Mark Devendorf.

Radio

 * The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled "The Shadow People", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series (1946–1947, 1949–1952, 1952, 1953). The episode casts Dr. Hesselius as an occult sleuth and aired on September 5, 1952.


 * On November 20, 1981, the CBC Radio series Nightfall aired an adaptation of Carmilla written by Graham Pomeroy and John Douglas.

Music

 * Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk... and Her Embrace inspired by "Carmilla", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled "Carmilla's Masque". The lyric: "Portrait of the Dead Countess" in the track "A Gothic Romance" could be in reference to the portrait found in the novel of the Countess Mircalla. There is also a track on the accompanying EP Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein titled "Queen Of Winter Throned" which contains the lyrics: "Iniquitous/I share Carmilla's mask/A gaunt mephitic voyeur/On the black side of the glass". Lead singer Dani Filth has often cited Sheridan Le Fanu as an inspiration to his lyrics.


 * Theatres des Vampires, an Italian extreme gothic metal band has produced a video single called "Carmilla" for its album Moonlight Waltz.


 * Lord Vampyr, an Italian extreme gothic metal singer, has produced a track called "Carmilla whispers from the grave", that tells the story of an homonym vampire girl who bites the man she used to love while she was alive.


 * Prior to her first record deal, British singer-songwriter Kate Bush recorded at least thirty officially-unreleased but much-bootlegged demos of original material, circa 1972. One of these, "Surrender into the Roses" (also known as "Carmilla" and "Coming Up") was inspired by the tale.


 * Two Witches, a Finnish Gothic rock band, created a song in the early 1990s called "Mircalla", inspired by the novel.


 * Japanese Visual Kei artist Kaya released a single titled Carmilla in which he portrays himself as a female vampire with a desire to transform his male lover.


 * A chamber opera version of Carmilla appeared in 1970 (Carmilla: A Vampire Tale, music by Ben Johnston, script by Wilford Leach). Seated on a sofa, Laura and Carmilla recount the story retrospectively in song.


 * Carmilla, a musical theater adaptation by Allan Jaffe and Deborah Atherton circa 1995.


 * The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album 'Fire in Harmony' was 'Blood and Roses' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.


 * The Green Pajamas' 2001 album In a Glass Darkly: Songs Inspired By The Stories of J.S. Le Fanu includes a song "Carmilla".


 * The songs "A Very Strange Agony" and "To Die Only Once" of the Spanish symphonic metal band Döxa were inspired by "Carmilla".

Books

 * The novel Carmilla: The Return, written in 1999 by Kyle Marffin, begins in 19th century Austria but follows Carmilla's life into 1990s Michigan.


 * A vampire named Baron Karnstein appears in Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former (until her death at the hands of vampire hunters) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève. Some short stories set in the Anno Dracula universe have also included Carmilla.


 * The story of Carmilla is illustrated using old antique etchings by Tiffini Elektra X in the book In This House: A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques.


 * The story "Carmilla" was included in Pam Keesey's collection of lesbian vampire stories, Daughters of Darkness (1993).

Comics

 * In 1991, Aircel Comics published a six-issue black and white miniseries of Carmilla by Steven Jones and John Ross. It was based on the story by Sheridan Le Fanu and billed as "The Erotic Horror Classic of Female Vampirism". The first issue was printed in February 1991. The first three issues were an adaptation of the original story, while the latter three were a sequel set in the 1930s.


 * Carmilla. Nuestra Señora de los Vampiros is a black and white one-shot published in 1999 by Spanish comic publisher Dude Comics based on the story by Sheridan Le Fanu, but with a modern twist. In present day, Carmilla saves a girl named Laura from being raped and later gives her Le Fanu's book to read to explain her past. Laura finally becomes Carmilla's companion. Based on a script by Roy Thomas, the comic had two artists with radically different graphic styles: Rafa Fonteriz draw the present day part, while Isaac M. del Rivero draw the part based on Le Fanu's book.


 * Graphic Classics, vol. 14: Gothic Classics (2007) contains an adaptation of Carmilla, illustrated by Lisa K. Weber and adapted by Rod Lott.


 * The webcomic Romanian Gothique features a vampire countess named "Camilla", who is also a lesbian.


 * Carmilla (a lesbian vampire) is the leading character of most of the Italian comics by Francesca Paolucci (published in Italy by EF Edizioni).


 * In the first story arc of Dynamite Entertainment's revamp of Vampirella, a villainous vampire named Le Fanu inhabits the basement of a Seattle nightclub named Carmilla.

Anime

 * Carmilla makes an appearance as the antagonist in the anime Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.


 * In the anime Hellsing, a succubus who claims to be the sister of Integra Hellsing makes an appearance. She goes by the name of Laura, and Integra asks her if she is the vampire Carmilla. When Alucard confronts her, she takes on a catlike appearance before she attacks him. In the end, Alucard kills her with only one bullet, in a matter of one second.


 * In episode 30 and beyond of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, a character named Camula is introduced as a soul-stealing vampiress trying to gain control of the three Sacred Beast cards. She is portrayed with a stereotypical Romanian accent in the English dub.


 * In Glass Mask (episode 29 of the anime and volume 17 of the manga), Ayumi Himekawa played Carmilla in a stage adaptation of the novella.


 * In Master of Mosquiton OVA, Carmilla shows up as Mosquiton's vampire ex-wife.

Video games

 * In the video game Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand, Carmilla is one of the Immortals, who appears either as a young girl in a red dress, or a huge half-human, half-snake creature.


 * In the video game Lunar Knights, a character named Sheridan has a maid named Carmilla. The banker in the game is also named Laura.


 * In six of the Castlevania games; Circle of the Moon, Rondo of Blood, its PSP remake Dracula X Chronicles, Simon's Quest, Judgment, and Lords of Shadow; there is a character named Camilla, described as being a longtime acolyte of Count Dracula. The character's name has been spelled as both Carmilla and Camilla, but was changed to Vampira in the U.S. localization of Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. In Rondo of Blood, Carmilla appears as a boss alongside Laura. In the game Circle of the Moon, Carmilla plays a much larger role as the main antagonist in this game than in others and is responsible for the resurrection of Dracula. In the game Portrait of Ruin, Laura appears as a minor vampire character, described as "Carmilla's servant". In Judgment, Carmilla appears as a playable character, using a bladed shield, gauntlet, and high heels to attack. Finally, in "Lords of Shadow", Carmilla appears as the Dark Lord of the vampires and is one of the main bosses that must be defeated in order to progress in the game.


 * Square's Seiken Densetsu III contains a type of monster called Carmilla and a higher level variant called Carmilla Queen.


 * In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, there is a version of succubus called a Carmilla.


 * In Operation Darkness Carmilla is featured as the second-in-command of the supernatural division of the Nazi SS and is one of the main enemies of the game.


 * In Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger's Requiem's Original Soundtrack, the final battle track is named Rose-killing Carmillia (薔薇殺しのカーミラ, Bara koroshi Karmilia), performed by Noriko Mitose.

References in other media

 * The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to 'admire' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.
 * There is a Japanese lesbians' magazine named after Carmilla, as Carmilla "draws hetero women into the world of love between women".
 * In HBO TV series True Blood, Season 2- Episodes 5 and 6, a hotel in Dallas Texas has been built for Vampires called "Hotel Carmilla." They have heavy shaded rooms and provide room service of human "snacks" (with blood type and sexuality) for their vampire clientele.