Mystic stories. Face to face with ghosts.

The works of English, Irish, American writers of the XIX - XX centuries included in the collection, with all their diversity, the theme of the supernatural, now and then through the subtle cover of everyday reality into human life. On the pages of this book, the reader will encounter inexplicable and sinister events that played out in an empty house in the very center of London, and with a ghostly mummy-vampir, disturbing the inhabitants of the estate in the east of England; The joke about the village cemetery will read, which moved to the other side of the river, and stories about the missing room and “enchanted” hotel room; It will turn out to face the deceased Swedish count, who once made a “black pilgrimage” to places where, according to legend, the Antichrist was born, and with the dark, deadly riddles from the Celtic past of the Cornwall peninsula... among the authors developing these mystical plots, - - - Classics of Victorian prose Edward Bulver-Litton, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanya, Montegu Rhodes James, as well as the famous playwright Bernard show.