At a seaside hotel in Heyst, Belgium, the orphaned Harriet Brandt, a wealthy young woman raised in Jamaica, makes friends eagerly, but those she grows fond of weaken and die. Published in 1897, the same year as Dracula, the novel imagines a psychic vampire whose curse comes from her heredity, a premise steeped in the racial anxieties of its day.
An intriguing Victorian vampire novel by a woman writer, of interest to students of Gothic fiction. Download the free EPUB.