Mystic stories. Phantom of the lake

Feasted statues, strange places, ghosts, saving mortals, destroying arrogant braces and even entering into marriage with each other, malicious adherents of black magic, a deal of the devil, the restless souls of the murderers, attempts to look into the future - about this and more about a lot Another is awarded by Amelia Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, Arthur Gray, Montague Rhodes James and other classics of the Gothic Gothic story genre, whose works were included in this collection. Under their pen, reality every now and then loses the usual boundaries of space and time, the sublunar world reveals its secrets, and the common truths are doubled and blurred in the unsteady reflections of another - unhealthy - life...

and even skeptics have to agree with the fact that That not everything can be found an explanation: “Before I thought about the so -called supernatural phenomena, except by accident and casually and therefore did not believe in them. Now I had to admit that the incident of this night - of those that did not dream of my philosophy ”(Edmund Mitchell. Fantom of the lake).