Our Crimson Cage by Ladz

Description

Laura Toperz expects her husband’s week-long absence to be uneventful. Instead, the wealthy household is shaken by murder, and something far more sinister is stirring beneath the manor.

For Elżbieta, becoming a maid in the Toperz household represents a chance at security and perhaps the riches she’s always dreamed of. When she sneaks into the manor’s forbidden basement searching for valuables, she finds something far more precious and terrifying: a starving, solitary creature begging to be released.

Elżbieta gives in.

Soon the town is awash in blood. Laura remembers the mysterious woman who comforted her during her childhood, a figure her late father insisted was nothing more than an imaginary friend. But Karmila was never imaginary. Now she has escaped her confinement, and her hunger has turned toward the town’s women.

As Laura confronts the consequences of what was unleashed under her roof, she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to stop the bloodshed and the seductive frenzy consuming everyone around her.

Set in nineteenth-century Poland, Our Crimson Cage is a dark folk-horror reimagining of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, blending vampire horror, gothic atmosphere, forbidden desire, and a tale of obsession that sinks its teeth deep into the original.

Book Details

• Author: Ladz
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9798989398720
• Genre: Horror / Gothic Horror / Vampire Fiction
• Setting: 19th-century Poland
• Based on: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu