Miss Christina stood there, very close to him, with her breasts uncovered, her hair loose, waiting. “Egor, you’re humiliating me!” he could hear her thoughts. “Turn off the lamp, come closer!” Egor tried in vain to resist. He could feel Miss Christina’s command in his brain, he could feel her poisonous calling in his blood. “If she kisses me I’m lost,” he thought. Mircea Eliade's fantasy novel "Domnişoara Christina" deals with the fate of an eccentric family of the Moscus, who are haunted by the ghost of a brutally assassinated aristocrat known as Christina. When two guests, Egor Paschevici, a painter, and Mr. Nazarie, a professor of history, are invited to spend some time in the country, it is not long before Christina comes back from the grave in the shape of a blood-devouring vampire or strigoi, to stalk the living. Her elder niece, Sanda, is attacked first, but shortly thereafter, Simina, Sanda’s younger sister, falls a prey to the ghoul’s powerful magnetism. The young man Egor becomes the object of Christina's desire, and they are finally brought together in a sexually charged encounter in the former’s bedroom. Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religions and author, and professor in the University of Chicago Divinity School. Eliade’s novel marks an important event in the development of fantastic literature in Romania, and epitomizes the main features of what one may consider to be a native version of the Gothic genre.