Mystical Stories. Phantom of the Lake

Living statues, strange places, ghosts saving mortals, destroying overconfident boastful individuals, and even marrying each other, malevolent adepts of black magic, deals with the devil, restless souls of murderers, attempts to glimpse the future — this and much more is narrated by Amelia Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, Arthur Gray, Montague Rhodes James, and other classics of the Victorian gothic tale genre, whose works have been included in this collection. Under their pen, reality repeatedly loses its familiar boundaries of space and time, the underworld reveals its secrets, and common truths double and blur in the wavering reflections of another – otherworldly – life… Even skeptics have to agree that not everything can be explained: «Previously, I pondered the so-called supernatural phenomena only incidentally and in passing and therefore did not believe in them. Now I have to admit that the occurrence of this night is one of those that my philosophy could not have dreamed of» (Edmund Mitchell. Phantom of the Lake).