The immensely popular travel destination Vienna shines with its magnificent Ringstrasse, splendid theaters, elegant cafés, charming horse-drawn carriages, and lovely girls. At the same time, however, the Austrian capital is also a place of depths. In suburbs like Ottakring, the XVI district, the imperial pomp is contrasted by various eerie corners, crumbling tenement houses, unsightly dives, and marginalized existences. Into this grotesquely eerie milieu, the two macabre tales by Ralf Georg Bogner transport the reader.