Hungerstone

Hungerstone is Kat Dunn's fierce, sapphic reworking of Carmilla, the nineteenth-century novella that helped inspire Dracula. Lenore has spent a decade as the composed, dutiful wife of Henry, a self-made steel magnate. When his ambitions move them from London to Nethershaw, a crumbling estate in the north of England, the cracks in their loveless marriage — and one dark secret from Henry's last hunt — leave Lenore starving for something she cannot name.

Then a carriage overturns near the house, and Carmilla arrives: pale by day, vivid by night, and utterly magnetic. As Carmilla draws out a hunger Lenore has buried for years, girls in the surrounding villages begin to sicken, wasting away with a strange and bloody thirst. What blooms between the two women is intoxicating and dangerous in equal measure.

Atmospheric, feminist, and brimming with rage and appetite, Hungerstone is a gothic story about desire, control, and the cost of a woman finally allowing herself to want. It reworks a classic vampire tale into something sharp, sensual, and entirely its own.