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Miss Christina

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First edition (publ. Cultura Națională)

Miss Christina (Romanian: Domnișoara 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

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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

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An English translation by Ana Cartianu was published in 1992 as part of the Eliade omnibus volume Mystic Stories.[1]

Film adaptations

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The novella has been the basis for two Romanian film adaptations with the same title.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Eliade, Mircea (1992). Mystic stories : the sacred and the profane. ISBN 9789732102718. OCLC 28762094. Retrieved 2013-10-16 – via WorldCat.
  2. ^ "Domnişoara Christina (1992)". CineMagia.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  3. ^ "Horror la TIFF: Domnişoara Christina" (in Romanian). CineMagia.ro. 2013-08-11. Retrieved 2013-10-16.