A collection of stories which, if read by today's standards, can be categorized in the literary subgenre of folklore horror and focus on what Montague Summers described as "the tradition that in Greece retained its power more than anywhere else in Europe," that of the vrykolakas.

From the early writings of Dimitrios Ainian to the dark humor of Ioannis Kondylakis and the chilling tales of Kostas Pasagiannis, 13 short stories that draw their primary material from a mosaic of folklore traditions from all over Greece.