After Ninety Years

Milovan Glišić is often compared to Gogol for his ability to combine ominous folk legends with witty satire. His novella, written seventeen years before Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” introduces the legendary vampire Sava Savanović, with whom readers will be able to get acquainted in this book.

In the collection, you can also find creatures that control the weather, dancing genies, ghosts, and demons. However, not every strange event is explained by dark forces—sometimes it’s simply peasant superstition or clever trickery. The book is saturated with Serbian folklore and offers an exciting immersion into the world of mysticism.

More than a century later, Sava Savanović will reappear on the pages of Mirjana Novaković’s novel “Fear and His Servant,” where his grave will be sought out by dubious characters: the devil and an alluring duchess.

Glišić’s novella “After Ninety Years” can be placed alongside such well-known works as Gogol’s “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka” and “Viy,” Stoker’s “Dracula,” Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” and others.

This collection is part of the “Magistrale. Balkan Collection” subseries. Like other books in the series, it has a sealed edge (fore-edge). The cover design includes ornaments reminiscent of traditional embroidery patterns and carpet motifs. Symbols and images from the works are interwoven in the ornament. The flaps can be used as bookmarks, making it easy to find where you left off.