By turns caring and cold, funny and deadly serious, the title characters bring about change, for good and (mostly) bad, in their human counterparts. The tales reveal a different world, dark and fantastic, but in a way that blurs the borders between mysticism and reality. Some gruesome parallels could be real, but in every story there is an implication, a chance of a magic, supernatural motive. Other episodes may look like sheer fantasy, but each ending offers a possible real explanation.