Mystical Stories. The Haunted House

The anthology includes short stories and novellas by Western European, American, and Australian writers from the 19th to 20th centuries. These works, despite their diversity, share the theme of the supernatural invading the measured course of everyday life. Authors immerse their characters and readers in a terrifying gothic world, full of metaphysical and psychological enigmas that defy conventional, rational explanations. The incomprehensible play of chance, the traps of time and space, fateful encounters with one's own second "self", with bloodthirsty vampires, with suddenly resurrected inhabitants of graves, and, of course, with ethereal spirits of the deceased become serious trials for characters living in the age of steam engines and railways. These dramatic and deadly encounters of the mundane and the fantastically eerie are narrated by the masters of literary mainstream.