«Mystical stories. All Souls' Day "William Harvey, E. and H. Heron, Edith Wharton, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James, Frank Stockton, John Bakan, Lyudmila Brilova, Cleveland Langston Moffett: download fb2, read online|||| |About the book: 2023 / On the pages of stories by Anglo-American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, the reader will meet well-known fairy-tale characters and ghosts living in ancient houses, with occult scientists and dangerous artifacts, with witches and demons. The intrusions of the sinister and supernatural into everyday life, the dramatic clashes between the superstitions of the past and the skepticism of the present are narrated - sometimes jokingly, sometimes seriously, sometimes slowly, and sometimes with almost detective tension - by the masters of Gothic stories Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James, Edith Wharton, John Bakan , William Fryer Harvey and other authors. Most of the works included in the collection are published in new translations; a number of stories are published in Russian for the first time.

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