Mystic stories. Stories told after dinner. Dickens Ch., Le Fanya J.Sh., Gaskell E.

The collection includes the mystical stories of British and American writers of the XIX - XX centuries. In the literature of the Old and New Worlds, interest in the terrible and supernatural was always present. The first place in the rich repertoire of such topics and plots, of course, occupy stories about ghosts, which have become the main characters of the book proposed. Vague shadows in ancient chambers, disturbing the new owners; invisible entities that permeate all the elements of the visible world; restless souls of victims and killers; perfumes saving mortal and destroying arrogant bouncers; Ghosts, experiencing difficult times in the era of philosophical skepticism, the heyday of science and triumph of technology; Finally, ordinary people leading a cunning “game of ghosts” with their neighbors - all this and much more the reader will find on the pages of this volume. Among the authors of the book are the world -famous masters of the word (N. Gorn, C. Dickens, G. James, J. K. Jerom, G. Wells, D. G. Lawrence), the luminaries of the Gothic story genre (A. Edwards, J. Sh.. Le Fanya, M. R. James) and thoroughly forgotten writers (C. L. Young, R. Malholland, R. Marsh).