{"product_id":"caramelle-carmilla-aunt-lute-colloquy","title":"Caramelle \u0026 Carmilla (Aunt Lute Colloquy)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, and Gwendolyn Christie, comes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCaramelle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jewelle Gomez’s latest addition to the universe of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gilda Stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e This short story offers a supernatural alternate history where vampires seek love, laughter, and blood in 1860s slavery America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by a glimpse of affection in Joseph Le Fanu’s 1872 classic vampire novella\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCaramelle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows two vampires who arrive at a way station on the Underground Railroad not to stalk their prey but to seek sanctuary, intertwining the haunting legacy of American slavery with gothic horror and the resilience of Black women.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, included here alongside \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCaramelle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Le Fanu serves the sensual, sapphic, and spooky packaged into the experience of girlhood in 19th Century Austria. This original vampire story predates Dracula and introduces the genre as reliant on themes of gender, sexuality, and race.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGomez’s foreword deftly links the two works by exploring the historical and cultural contexts that surround these two powerful iterations of the vampire genre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“As in the past we still hold our freedom and our pleasur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46123344035894,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0595\/9814\/3542\/files\/71ZyK3fSRiL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778694875","url":"https:\/\/peabodybookemporium.com\/products\/caramelle-carmilla-aunt-lute-colloquy","provider":"Peabody Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}