The famous works “Upyr,” “The Family of the Vourdalaks,” and “Three Years Later” are romantic stories featuring both mystical and real heroes. Against the backdrop of beautiful love, there unfold serious dramatic tales of vampires and ghouls who can easily move from Italy to Russia, penetrating through space and time. Romantic passions exist alongside a chain of mysterious deaths, the reanimation of corpses, and people turning into vampires.