Most of the short stories in this book are an attempt to distinguish the traditions of free masons in the shimmering of local legends and at the same time the sacred geography and metaphysical local lore of Galicia in the context of recent history and mythology — that is, those times when "the party leader clearly defined that there can be no vampires, because werewolves and Marxism-Leninism are incompatible." The adventure story of hoary antiquity is organically combined in them with modern criminal plots.