Miss Christina

Miss Christina is a 1936 horror novella by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. It depicts a paranormal romance between a strigoi and a regular human.

Plot

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.

Translation

An English translation by Ana Cartianu was published in 1992 as part of the Eliade omnibus volume Mystic Stories.

Film adaptations

The novella has been the basis for two Romanian film adaptations with the same title.