Carmilla Characters
Every major character in Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, with a portrait, who they are and the chapters they appear in.
Laura's fatherMajor character · 14 chaptersA kindly, practical widowed landowner who manages the schloss and protects his daughter from strange events.
General SpielsdorfMajor character · 11 chaptersA grieving, determined retired officer who seeks justice for his niece and supplies crucial testimony about vampiric danger.
LauraNarrator · 11 chaptersA sheltered young woman who narrates her intense, unsettling friendship with the mysterious Carmilla.
CarmillaAntagonist · 10 chaptersA captivating, secretive young woman who befriends Laura while secretly being the vampiric Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.
Madame PerrodonMajor character · 10 chaptersLaura’s long-serving governess and housekeeper who provides practical, maternal care and steadies the household amid growing alarm.
Mademoiselle De LafontaineMinor character · 8 chaptersLaura’s finishing governess and steady, respectable presence in the schloss household, offering practical and occasionally mystical commentary.
Baron VordenburgMajor character · 5 chaptersAn antiquarian scholar in Gratz whose archives and expertise reveal Mircalla/Karnstein’s identity and the rules of vampirism.
Bertha RheinfeldtMinor character · 5 chaptersThe General's beloved ward whose mysterious illness and offstage death spur his obsessive hunt for the predator.- MMillarcaAntagonist · 4 chaptersA charming, mysterious young visitor who hides a dangerous nocturnal nature and binds herself to the household.
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