Lepirs: Between Shadow and Light

Provoked by his fear of death, Rafail, a student, engages in a complicated university research on vampires – the only demons that originate from humans. Sybilla is a popular writer who returns from Malta with the idea of writing her new book in her native home. In the deserted village she encounters a sorceress named Varvara who begins to teach Sybilla occult practices, convincing her that this is the only way for her to write the book of her life. Silena is a desperate widow. She cannot overcome her husband’s death and gets involved with a secret organization called ‘The Grey Ones’. They promise to bring Silena’s husband back. Together they start performing ancient magic rituals that aim to bring him back of the realm of the dead. Sokol has lost himself. In search of his own peace, he goes to his best friend’s remote house. Sokol’s most important journey begins there: a journey to his inner worlds.
The boundaries between sleep, memories, imagination, insanity, death and life begin to fade. Nothing is what it seems.

The book was inspired by Radoslav Gizgindzhiev’s research on “Vampires in Bulgarian Folk Songs: Between Shadow and Light”. This was Radoslav’s graduation project for the University of Veliko Tarnovo.