![]() ![]() I guess that explains why they live in a castle and the townsfolk fear them? But that in itself doesn’t necessarily mean they’re vampires either. They walk about in daylight just fine, don’t drink anyone’s blood, there’s no clue that Stevenson’s hinting they’re vampires at all. Yes, it’s Gothic - crumbling castle in the mountains, check, very atmospheric - but horror and vampires - what?! Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1887 short story is so damn subtle, finding out from other sources that this is supposedly a Gothic horror and that the aristocratic family were vampires (or something) completely threw me. Nothing happens, then the narrator falls for Olalla but they can’t be together and then it’s over. The son is a bit of a simpleton, the mother is quietly crazy (until she isn’t), and the daughter, Olalla, is eerily beautiful. ![]() The family who own the house are aristocrats who’ve fallen on hard times. ![]() A man is invited to a dilapidated castle in the Spanish mountains to recover from an illness or something. ![]()
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