Julia is truly bamboozled, Victoria embraces that she is a vampire girlie, and they both dig into the context of Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla, edited with commentary by the absolute legend Carmen Maria Machado. Become a Member ! Shop with us on Bookshop.org ! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph : Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more . Mentioned in this episode: Carmilla (1872) episode of Queer As Fact The Museum of Jurassic Technology “ A Perfectly Normal Interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine ” by Theodore McCombs (Electric Literature) Twilight by Stephanie Meyer Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia 080 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series Carmilla web series European Travels for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss Carmilla the First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee Recommendations: Dracula by Bram Stoker Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Height s by Emily Brontë Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Tár (film) F(r)iction – The Monsters Issue Interview with the Vampire series on AMC Gentleman Jack series on HBO Currently Obsessed My Invented Country by Isabel Allende Yellowjackets on Showtime Normal Gossip (podcast) Past Lives (film) The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun