The novel “The Serapion Brothers” by the famous German romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) is a cycle of narratives united by the framing story of young writers - the Serapion brothers. Incredible events, vampires, necromancers, mysterious beauties come to life on the pages of a book that has not been completely published in Russian translation for more than 70 years.

In a quiet, peaceful family circle, where they loved to tell ghost stories, suddenly a stranger appeared, who seemed to everyone to be extremely sinister and antipathetic, despite the fact that he seemed to be the most ordinary person. This stranger disturbed the peace and happiness of the family, and only chance prevented destruction from happening...