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These are recommendations made by Tropers for Carmilla fanfics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. After a few samples, you will be able to judge whether you might be interested in the 'fic, based on who recommended it. No-name recommendations will be zapped. Nobody would back up the rec. Discussion of the recommendation is welcome on the discussion page. As such discussion is important, do remember to add the discussion page to the watchlist, if need be. You can also add to the current recommendations if you want. Refrain from posting Conversation in the Main Page though; that goes in the discussion page.
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As in Dreaming
by Evandar
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The tale of Carmilla didn't end with the novel. This is what happened after.
- Comments: It's a cute and imaginative story. The author manages to find a way to Carmilla survive her death on the novella, and is a sweeter story that the original book.
- Tags: Continuation Fic, Back from the Dead
Add ReviewCarmilla: The Ingenious Deception of a Loving Vampire by Fay
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The events of the book from the point of view of Carmilla.
- Comments: Illuminates the mystery of why Carmilla have gone behind Laura.
- Tags: Stalker with a Crush, Yandere
Chrysalis by PsychoPomposity
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Long after the time of her first account, a much older Laura contemplates the past.
- Comments: It's a well-written, with a melancholy air everywhere. The old Laura is lonely as the original novella, now only perturbed with his memories about her, clearly Carmilla, than never seems but is ubiquitous throughout history. Very good.
- Tags: Continuation Fic, Nostalgic Narrator, Ambiguous Ending
I Am Dead, My Dearest by havocthecat
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: ...to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
- Comments: Even if it do not bring explanations for the return of Carmilla, this fic captures the melancholic and languid spirit of the Le Fanu's narrative.
- Tags: Continuation Fic, Back from the Dead, Stalking is Love
Join Me in Death by Taste_of_Suburbia
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: It was only a matter of time before Carmilla would be allowed to see her again.
- Comments: A short story with a surprising Plot Twist and rare happy ending for Carmilla and Laura.
- Tags: Together in Death
Strange Agonies by havisham
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: This is the story of Laura and her lazy girlfriend; how they met, how they fell in love, and how one of them was revealed to be a centuries-old vampire countess with a burning fondness for anagrams of her own name.
- Comments: A reimagining of the original story, keep true to the original characters by giving them more development and new motivations to Carmilla claim Laura.
- Tags: Alternate Universe Fic, Cannot Spit It Out, Unequal Pairing
Systema Naturae by elektra121
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Carmilla as a lepidopterist.
- Comments: Carmilla says in the book: "Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; (...) each with their peculiar propensities, necessities, and structure." This story explores this affirmation in great detail. Narrated by Carmilla, she compare the girls to butterfly of deterministic and poetic way. A good read.
- Tags: Appeal to Nature
Think Me Not Cruel by KannaOphelia
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me or mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.
- Comments: A history of broken heart and psychological disturbance very well written, tense and melancholy.
- Tags: Continuation Fic, Psychological Horror, Driven to Suicide, Ambiguous Ending
To the East by calloftherunningtide
- Recommended by: Bia
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After Carmilla's death, Laura can't help but see her attraction to women as tied to vampirism. Can she untangle them in a society that condemns both as unholy?
- Comments: Even without the presence of Carmilla is fic can be interesting to show how broken and perturbed Laura was after Carmilla.
- Tags: Continuation Fic, Coming-Out Story, Forbidden Fruit, Troubled, but Cute
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