The book presents a rich collection of mystical, mysterious, and eerie stories created by Western European and American writers of the 18th–20th centuries. About ghosts, vampires, witches, the living dead, destructive statues and mannequins, nightmarish dreams and otherworldly prophecies, deals with the devil and love that is not subject to death are narrated by famous authors such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, W. Irving, N. Hawthorne, P. Merimee, E. A. Poe, H. Melville, C. Dickens, R. L. Stevenson, R. Kipling, B. Stoker, G. Meyrink, H. P. Lovecraft, as well as relatively lesser-known creators of frightening plots like I. K. A. Museus, W. G. Simms, E. Northcote, J. H. Nisbet, E. G. Swain, W. F. Harvey, and others. Intersecting with each other through characters, situations, and meanings, the gothic plots of the book reveal to the reader, beneath the veil of ordinary reality, an irrational and terrifying world that undermines the confident claims to omniscience characteristic of the modern man.
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