Mystical stories. The haunted house
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The anthology includes short stories and novellas by Western European, American and Australian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries in classic translations. These works, for all their diversity, are united by the theme of the supernatural, which intrudes into the measured course of everyday life. The authors involve their characters and readers in a frightening gothic world, full of metaphysical and psychological mysteries that do not lend themselves to the usual, rational explanations. The incomprehensible game of chance, the traps of time and space, fateful encounters with their own second selves, with bloodthirsty vampires, with suddenly resurrected grave dwellers and, of course, with disembodied spirits of the dead become a serious test for characters living in the age of steam engines and railroads. About these dramatic and deadly dangerous collisions of the ordinary and fantastically creepy narrated by the masters of the literary mainstream (W. Irving, C. Dickens, G. James, J. Conrad), recognized masters of the literary mainstream (W. Irving, C. Dickens, G. James, J. Conrad). Conrad), recognized masters of gothic short stories (J. S. Le Fanu, M. R. James, A. Beers, E. F. Benson) and now undeservedly forgotten novelists such as I. A. Apel, M. H. Fortune, W. J. Wintle, D. Donovan and others.
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