Mysticism. A large collection of stories about the supernatural

The book presents a rich 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, destructive statues and mannequins, about nightmares and otherworldly prophecies, about transactions with the devil and love, not subject to death, narrate as famous authors (E. T. Hoffmann, V. Irving, N. GORTORN, P. Merima, E. A. Po, G. Melville, C. Dickens, R. L. Stevenson, R. Kipling, B. Stoker, G. Micerink, G. F. Lavkraft), and relatively relatively The little -known creators of terrible plots (I.K. A. Museus, U. G. Simms, E. Northcott, J. H. Nisbet, E. G. Swayin, W.F. Harvey, etc).
Crithing with each other by characters, situations and meanings, Gothic plots of the book reveal the reader behind the cover of everyday reality an irrational and terrible world, tipping on self -confident claims to the omniscience inherent in a person of the New Age