A World of Vampires: Strigoi

These illustrations are part of a series of commissions I've been doing for a friend of mine. She discovered that every culture in the world has some sort of Vampire-creature legend, telling of beings or spirits who suck the blood or life energy of the living. So, she decided to write a series of novellas, each one featuring a different culture's vampire in a different location around the world.

This story features the Strigoi, a vampire legend from Romanian/Transylvanian countryside, and takes place in the Romanian villages and Gypsy camps of the late 16th century.