The short stories and poems In Dark Journeys describe perilous paths taken by mortals, vampires, and other creatures of the night. In the first story, A Problem with Werewolves, the relationship between a mortal male and his beautiful female vampire lover is tested when they battle with a pack of werewolves and a hideous demon. Dark poems tell of the painful and sometimes fatal relationships between mortals and vampires.A series of stories describe unusual and sometimes dangerous encounters experienced by a man very much like the author. The first story recounts his meeting with an urbane vampire in Bucharest.In the second, a strange person claiming to be a psychic vampire accosts him. A witch-like vampire attacks him in the third story.In another story, an obese, dim-witted young person struggles to survive his first week as a vampire. Changeling describes the physical transformation of a human to werewolf and need to submit to the Alpha.