“Meet the Vampires who started everything – the initial Count number Dracula, and his older feminine counterpart Carmilla – brought to compelling new life by Clive Hayward and Alison Larkin.

Le Fanu’s tortured, powerful female vampire, Carmilla, has been terrifying generations using its themes of lesbian attraction, forbidden and dangerous desires, manipulation and misdirection. And Dracula, created 26 years afterwards, locked in lots of from the vampire-lore conventions that contemporary fantasy authors still accept. Hayward and Larkin give delicious new readings of these blood-chilling tales. Followed by a conversation by Clive Hayward and Alison Larkin.”