Overview

"The first time I met her, I was so hammered that, for a long time, I couldn’t be entirely sure it wasn’t a dream. The feel of her strong fingers digging into my arms, her warm breath on my skin, haunted me through so many nights alone that I lost count." - Laura, Carmilla '86 Laura's life should have been like, totally perfect. She'd escaped her stifling small town life for a big city college, with a gorgeous roommate, Bertha, and the possibility of finally being able to be her authentic self, without her protective father hovering over her. When she meets a gorgeous woman full of fire and passion at a kegger, she thinks this is finally the moment she can admit to herself the things that lurked in the shadows of her mind. But then she stumbles on Bertha's dead body and those feelings get shoved right back into the closet they came from. Years later, she is called back home to help her father after an illness, and it's driving her crazy. Then, on a foggy summer night, she pulls over to help a stranded driver and finds the woman of her dreams. Or.. is it like, a totally bogus nightmare? Set between 1986 and modern times, Carmilla '86 is a campy retelling of the classic lesbian horror novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. Weaving in beloved vampire tropes with a strong does of eighties references, Carmilla '86 is a horribly beautiful love letter to the original work.