Dracula. Treasure of seven stars. Stories

The English prose writer of Irish origin Bram Stoker (1847–1912) gained world fame as the author of the novel “Dracula” (1897), in which, connecting folklore and literary stories about vampires with the figure of the bloody Valash ruler of the 15th century, created a new, in every sense of the word of the immortal hero. However, on the pages of this volume, the reader will meet not only with a neopower writer, whose column vampire entered the pantheon of eternal images of world literature and culture, but also with a completely different stocker: a mystic who tells about the secret magic rituals of ancient Egypt and secrets of embalming, about the plundering tombs and wanderings of the soul after death, an ironic author of fun and mischievous sketches on theatrical topics, a fiction-experimenter, who is not alien to a variety of genre traditions and stylistic tonality-from melodrama to tragicomedy, from a frank grotesque to open horror, from “black humor” to to parables