Barba Yiannis~ Uncle Blood-Sucker

Andy Alytis is a Greek American ex-patriot, living in Athens. He notes ruefully that all the foreign, university-student girlfriends he has, so far, dated in Athens have started out seeming like girls next door, but gradually revealed themselves to be wing-nuts and drama queens full of hidden fears and twisted feelings. He's hoping to meet a good, down to earth Greek girl who will take him like he is. So, he's over-the-moon about, Chrysoula.Though he describes her as having a face like a porcelain doll with a nimbus of black hair, he notes that her name is based on the Greek word for "Gold". When he meets her in Syntagma Square that morning, as they have promised, to Andy, it is like finally reaching a city of Gold!"But before their rendezvous is finished, Chrysoula knocks all Andy's expectations into a cocked hat with the weirdest, most unsettling story he can imagine. There, at a sidewalk cafenion, in the midst of Athens crowds and traffic, Chrysoula recounts the story of her life on Hypatia, her obscure, home island. It is the story of her uncle, Barba Yiannis becoming a vrykolakos, a Greek vampire; her narrow escape from him and the fire that was supposed to cleanse the family of his curse forever....

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