Mystical stories. Absolute evil

Thirteen Gothic stories created by the English and American writers of the XIX-XX centuries, enter the reader into the world where ordinary and supernatural go hand in hand, absolute evil is adjacent to the ironic mockery of it, and the careless seekers of meetings with the unknown now and then are on the verge of life and death. Edith Warton, Montegu Rhodes James, Edward Frederick Benson, William Freyer Harvey and other masters of the genre tell about the long -standing secrets and generic curses, about transactions with the devil and ancient, but not having lost their sinister properties of artifacts, about vague shadows in semi -dark interiors and 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 before.
Compiled by Lyudmila Brilova