everything that i’ve read suggests that carmen maria machado’s edit of carmilla is incredibly contentious. personally, i read the introduction and adored the tongue-in-cheek bastardisation of the original text. yes, it’s a fiction, a queering, an unthreading of the classic, but it’s also a reverse-censorship. while machado’s interjections are a fabrication, queer history—and its silencing—is not; the picture of dorian gray has only recently been released in its uncensored entirety. still, i think i’ll read the original book alongside machado’s edited version to understand the scope of her influence. curious to hear others’ thoughts on this version of the text?

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins would be a great addition :) I read it in October and it was pretty fun! My copy ended up being 1000 pages long but it was worth it