This is Carlos Fuentes' big return to fantastic literature in which he brings together six stories about supernatural beings; ghosts, demons, angels, apparitions, witches, and vampires, who, as it usually happens in fantastic literature, burst into daily lives in an unexpected and definitive way, to change the destiny of those they meet. In their plots, Fuentes also proposes disquieting ideas and questions about love, death, God and vampires. The titles of the stories included here are: "El amante del teatro", "La gata de mi madre", "La buena compañía", "Calixta Brand", "La bella durmiente" and "Vlad".