Place DA·L·0001
Eastern Europe
A broad region associated with folklore about the returning dead and an imagined setting for many literary and cinematic vampires.
Horror’s Eastern Europe is often an imagined place: a geography more literary than real¶ Editorial interpretationAn editorial reading, identified explicitly as interpretation., where Serbia, Romania, Moldavia and Russia converge. This entry distinguishes areas associated with documented beliefs from settings used in films.
Position in the atlas
Connections
4 direct connections · 32 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
Creatures (4)
Strigoi
- Area
- Romania, Moldavia
- Earliest attestations
- Nineteenth-century folklore collections
Vurdalak
- Area
- Russia, Balkans
- Earliest attestations
- 19th century (literary form)
Strigoi
- Area
- Romania, Moldavia
- Earliest attestations
- Nineteenth-century folklore collections
Vurdalak
- Area
- Russia, Balkans
- Earliest attestations
- 19th century (literary form)
Films (1)
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
Sources (1)
La famiglia del Vurdalak
- Vampire creature · via Strigoi
- Protections against the dead belief or ritual · via Strigoi
- Vampires of Eastern Europe collection · via Strigoi
- The Vurdalak, from folklore to cinema bloodline · via Vurdalak
- Revenant creature · via Vurdalak
- La Guzla source · via Vurdalak
- The family vampire motif · via Vurdalak
- The vampire child motif · via Vurdalak
- Night of the Devils film · via Vurdalak
- Sem’ja vurdalakov film · via Vurdalak
- Boris Karloff person · via Vurdalak
- A. K. Tolstoy person · via Vurdalak
- Mario Bava person · via Black Sabbath
- American International Pictures person · via Black Sabbath
- Anton Chekhov person · via Black Sabbath
- Guy de Maupassant person · via Black Sabbath
- Theft from the dead motif · via Black Sabbath
- The threatening telephone motif · via Black Sabbath
- The sound that announces the supernatural motif · via Black Sabbath
- The threshold and invitation belief or ritual · via Black Sabbath
- Italian Gothic collection · via Black Sabbath
- Dubbing glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Censorship glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Alternate cut glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Literary adaptation glossary · via Black Sabbath
- I tre volti della paura vs Black Sabbath version · via Black Sabbath
- Rome place · via Black Sabbath
- Black Sunday film · via Black Sabbath
- Black Sabbath (band) person · via Black Sabbath
- The Chekhov credit: a source that cannot be found journal · via Black Sabbath
- Why Dread Atlas begins with I tre volti della paura journal · via Black Sabbath
- Vienna place · via La famiglia del Vurdalak
Revision history
- First draft.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «Eastern Europe», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·L·0001, updated 25 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/places/europa-orientale/