Family of Vurdalak. Tolstoy A.K.

Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy wrote prose rarely - in essence, all his non -ethical artistic heritage make up the novel “The Silver Prince” and several stories. However, these stories occupy a truly outstanding place in the Gothic literature and demonstrate an amazing combination of the author’s acquaintance with the best European samples of the genre and national originality of perception.

In the stories of Tolstoy, cruel ghouls come from the graves and hunt vampire vampires-vuorma-vampines. Ghosts and faces come to life in portraits, dangerous and strange miracles occur and an atmosphere of gloomy secret and frightening doom reigns, not inferior to the best examples of European Gothic. The second part of the collection is bales, also dedicated to mystical topics - werewolves and monsters, transitions from the body to the body and the Old Russian Knights, entering into a deadly battle with the mysterious creatures of darkness.