It depicts a paranormal romance between a strigoi and a regular human.
The novella depicts the story of the attraction between a female strigoi—an undead human from Romanian folklore—and a young man who visits the house she haunts.
An English translation by Ana Cartianu was published in 1992 as part of the Eliade omnibus volume Mystic Stories.
[1] The novella has been the basis for two Romanian film adaptations with the same title.
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