Overview

The year is 1952. The suburbs are the pinnacle of the American Dream—white picket fences, freshly mowed lawns, and neighbours that never forget to smile. Yet for Laura, it is stifling. Engaged and living with her elderly father, she finds her future as a housewife and mother an empty dream. When the odd and subversive Ms. Karnstein moves in just down the street, Laura is quickly enamoured. As friendship bubbles into something more, perverse yet irresistible, Laura discovers the darkness hiding beneath suburbia’s glossy surface and the price of freedom in a man’s world.

Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.

Ms. Karnstein is a dark sapphic romance and loose reimagining of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla set in 1950s America.