Carmilla: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

This was one of the first vampire works of fiction. A young girl is disappointed to know that an expected visitor has died suspiciously and suddenly. While out walking with her father a carriage turns over in the road and a young girl is left in their care until the mother can return from her emergency. The girl, Carmilla, is beautiful and charms the father and daughter. during her stay several woman in the village fall sick and die. Carmilla sleeps late into the day and becomes obsessively in love with the narrator until she too starts to fall ill. Carmilla is found out to be a vampire and is beheaded in her grave. The narrator then recovers. The story leaves itself open for a sequel as it never explains who Carmilla's "mother" is(we assume she too is a vampire) or if the narrator's mother was also a vampire since she was of the same family.