Carmilla is anti-heroine of J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla.Carmilla was born into the aristocratic Karnstein family in 17th-century Austria. She was orginally called Countess Mircalla (anagram of Carmilla) and false names. She is the archetypal upper class vampire; a beautiful countess, whose youthful looks bely her age. Over the years, she has developed an elaborate feeding ritual, that involves infiltrating the family of young girls and living alongside them, while she gradually drains their lifeblood over a period of weeks. Her latest victim is a lonely girl named Laura (sometimes name change in other adaptions), who lives with her father in a remote part of Styria. She was invited to stay with Laura and her father after her carriage is involved in an accident. Carmilla and Laura quickly becomes good friends. But Laura didn't know that her new friend is sucking her blood and the cause of her nightmares. Fortunately, Laura's father has the general whose niece who died to a woman named Millarca ( just happens to have been Carmilla's previous victim). Once he told them about what happed to his niece, it is soon obvious that Millarca and Carmilla are the same person, Carmilla's true nature is revealed, and she is staked and beheaded. Show less «