The Triumph of Darkness. Scary Stories

The book presents a collection of mystical, mysterious and terrible stories created by Western European and American writers of the XVIII-XX centuries. About ghosts, vampires, witches, reviving the dead, about nightmarish dreams, about transactions with the devil and love, not subject to death, narrate as famous authors (A. Conan Doyle, W. Collins, E.A. Poe, P. Merima, E. A. Pa, r. L. Stevenson, G. Mayrink, G. F. Lovecraft, A. Birs), and relatively little -known creators of terrible plots (E. Worton, E. Mitchell, E. and H. Cheron, and . Edwards) Crites with each other by characters, situations and meanings, Gothic stories of the book reveal the irrational and terrible world to the reader behind the cover of everyday reality, overturning self -confident claims to the omniscience inherent in a person of the New Age