Adventures of Alice IV. “There are no ghosts” and other stories and stories

The fourth book in the BML series about the adventures of Alice Selezneva - the heroine invented by science fiction writer I. V. Mozheiko. Mozheiko, who usually appeared under the pseudonym Kir Bulychev - includes seven stories: "Ghosts do not happen", "Guest in the jug", "Planet for tyrants", "Dangerous Tales", "Ancient Secrets", "Pashka-troglodyte", "Alice and the Beast", as well as the story: "Alice in Guslyar". The drawings in the book are made by a talented artist and innovator of domestic animation E. T. Migunov. T. Migunov.
The fourth book in the series "Library of World Literature" about the adventures of the "guest from the future" Alice Selezneva and her good old friends includes seven novels and the story "Alice in Guslyar". The story "There are no ghosts" describes how a twelve-year-old traveler found herself in a parallel world. There she meets Count Dracula and a whole host of witches. In Moscow, Alice will be a guest of the most real genie; this is hinted at by the title of the story "The Guest in the Jug". Science fiction writer Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko, known in the literary world under the pseudonym Kir Bulychev, will send his heroine to a planet where all tyrants are exiled. In "Dangerous Tales" Alice will visit the world of legends. In another story in the collection she will have to solve ancient mysteries. Other plots are no less curious. It is no coincidence that by the end of the twentieth century Mozheiko became in our country one of the most popular fiction writers. The secret of his success lies in irrepressible imagination and incredible efficiency. From under the pen Mozheiko came out hundreds of stories, novels and novels. And there were also translations of foreign fiction - more than two dozen authors. Released in the early XXI century. collection of works by Kir Bulychev amounted to 18 volumes. An important place in them was occupied by "Alisina" - a cycle devoted to the adventures of Alice Selezneva, with whom the reader meets again on the pages of this book. The drawings in the edition are made by Evgeny Tikhonovich Migunov. He almost always depicts his characters in motion the artist worked for many years in animated movies. In 1939 Evgeny Tikhonovich entered the art department of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, where he began to study in the workshop of the famous Ivanov-Vano. After graduating from the VGIK, Migunov became not an ordinary artist-cartoonist, and became a true innovator of drawn and puppet movies. His creative developments played an important role in the formation of the modern school of Russian animation. Migunov invented new techniques, patented inventions that "revitalized" puppets, offered new directorial methods. Since 1961, Evgeny Tikhonovich began to cooperate with the magazines "Murzilka", "Veselye Kartinki", "Pioneer", "Crocodile", making for them numerous illustrations. The hand of the master is recognized at first sight. In 1965 with his illustrations came out Strugatsky's story "Monday Begins on Saturday". In manner and technique they are very similar to Yevgeny Tikhonovich's drawings for Bulychev's novels - their main distinguishing feature is dynamism.