Lesbian vampire

[citation needed] Countess Elizabeth Báthory also inspired the vampire myth, and her alleged victims were all young women.

[2][3] The genre has its roots in Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla about the love of a female vampire for a young woman: Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration.

[2] Terror in the Crypt (1964) follows suit, with a portrayal of subtle lesbian attraction between a Karnstein descendant (possessed by Carmilla) and her victim.

More explicit lesbian content was provided in Hammer Studios production of the Karnstein Trilogy of films loosely adapted from Carmilla.

Lust for a Vampire (1971) followed, with Yutte Stensgaard as the same character played by Pitt, returning to prey upon students at an all-girls school.

[9] The story introduces Carmilla to 1990s New York, and the protagonist consults In a Glass Darkly while investigating the mysterious deaths of various LGBT+ women.

[10] For writing the comic, Chu won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel[11] Charles Busch's play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is a popular example of the genre.

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez features a lesbian who escapes from slavery in the 1850s and becomes inducted into a group of vampires.

Though most of the characters in the Southern Vampire Mysteries experiment with their sexuality, Pam is one of a dozen that falls into the LGBT category, including Sophie-Anne Leclerq and Tara Thornton, among others.

"[14] Elizabeth Báthory, the historical true-life prototype of the modern lesbian vampire, appears as a character in several films—although not always with the lesbian element—including Daughters of Darkness (1971) by Belgian director Harry Kumel, Hammer Films' Countess Dracula (1971), Immoral Tales (1973) directed by Walerian Borowczyk, The Bloody Countess (Ceremonia sangrienta) (1973) directed by Jorge Grau, and Eternal (2005).