title: The Annotated Carmilla
author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
description: D. MacDowell Blue hails from San Francisco, but was raised in Florida before attending school in New York City then eventually ending up in Los Angeles, California. His degree is in Theatre Arts, and he graduated from the National Shakespeare Conservatory. Over the years he has had several plays mounted in different venues (including one adaptation of Dracula) but these days his writing is usually found online in various blogs especially at vampires.com as well as his personal blog Night Tinted Glasses. His interest in the undead dates back to childhood and watching the original Dark Shadows on television (when he and his sister could do so behind their grandmothers disapproving back). He has long wanted to write a script for Carmilla and who knows but that might yet happen? Right now he is busy at work creating a web series about vampires titled End Of The Line as well as writing his first full-length novel, a retelling of the nineteenth century 'penny dreadful' Varney the Vampyre.
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
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  [Joseph Sheridan Le
  Fanu](The%20Purcell%20Papers%2c%20Volume%202_split_002.html#filepos1404)  
  [PASSAGE IN THE SECRET HISTORY OF AN IRISH COUNTESS.
  ](The%20Purcell%20Papers%2c%20Volume%202_split_002.html#filepos1513)  
  [THE BRIDAL OF CARRIGVARAH.
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  [STRANGE EVENT IN THE LIFE OF SCHALKEN THE PAINTER.
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  [SCRAPS OF HIBERNIAN BALLADS.
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  # The Purcell Papers, Volume 2
  
  
  ### Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  
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  ### PASSAGE IN THE SECRET HISTORY OF AN IRISH COUNTESS.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Being a Fifth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of
  Drumcoolagh.
  
  
  
  
  
  The following paper is written in a female hand, and was no doubt communicated
  to my much-regretted friend by the lady whose early history it