Carmilla, read aloud

The house's fifth chapter, Le Fanu's sixth: her mother stays a question and a sealed destination, the bond turns to 'come with me, loving me, to death', and a dream brings a sooty black beast and two needles.

The house's fourth chapter, Le Fanu's fifth: the restored family portraits come back from Gratz, one of them wears Carmilla's face and the date 1698, and out on the drawbridge the guest says plainly what she is.

The house's third chapter, Le Fanu's fourth: Laura tries to describe the guest she cannot read, a funeral Carmilla cannot bear, and a conjuror who notices her teeth.

The same night, inside. Le Fanu's third chapter, read as the house's second: the drawing room after the crash, then Laura alone with her guest, and the dream they both kept.

Le Fanu's first two chapters read as one: Laura's childhood and the night the carriage overturned. A Styrian schloss, a dying girl in the road, a mother who will not stay, and a guest left behind who is not what she seems.