Житель Каркозы

The great American writer Ambrose Bierce is rightly considered a peer of Edgar Poe in the tradition of the American short story of the 19th century. His parables and "horror stories" are fundamental reading and a pride of American literature. In his works, the Veteran of the Civil War reflects his own experience of the struggle for life and sanity in wartime and peacetime...
The appendix contains translations of the poem "The Song of Cassilda" by Robert Chambers, a writer-mystic who created a full-fledged "mythology" of Carcosa, which became the basis of his great collection "The King in Yellow".