In 1864, 166 years after her first spree, the Passion-Eater Mircalla Karnstein emerged once again. Styria had long moved past the rule of the nobility, and the first spree was all but lost to history. Laura Wachter, a young woman with roots in Albion, took Mircalla (using the name Carmilla at the time) into her father's schloss. The two developed a rapport that Mircalla was unprepared for. She could feed on the love of Styria's new young women, but with Laura, she felt the terrible pangs of real love. Mircalla was destined to slowly die spiritually from her love for Laura, and in turn, Laura was doomed to die from Carmilla's affections.

Carmilla, now going by that alias full-time, had thoughts of turning Laura, of living forever with her new love. These plans were unable to come to fruition, however, as the Baron of Spielsdorf, whose child had been taken by Carmilla mere weeks prior, recognised the curse of the Vampyre and led Carmilla to a second death, sealing her in her coffin for another century or more.

Laura would die in 1872, brokenhearted and terrified by her prior experiences. A shade of her, something not quite Laura, would take over her body, and this Ghost of Wachter Schloss was free to corrupt her surroundings for years to come.