Mystic stories. Absolute evil

Thirteen Gothic stories created by English and American writers of the XIX-XX centuries, introduce the reader into the world where the ordinary and supernatural goes hand in hand, absolute evil is adjacent to the ironic mockery of him, and the careless seekers of the meetings with the unknown and then and then turn out to On the verge of life and death. Edith Warton, Montegu Rhodes James, Edward Frederick Benson, William Freyer Harvey and other genre masters tell about the long -standing secrets and birth curses, about transactions with the devil and ancient, but not having lost their sinister properties of artifacts, about vague shadows in semi -meteries and those who fell In a difficult situation, ghosts...

All translations included in the collection are published for the first time, some stories have never been published in Russian.