Mystical Stories. The Haunted House

The works included in this collection by English, Irish, and American writers of the 19th-20th centuries are united, despite their diversity, by the theme of the supernatural, which occasionally penetrates through the thin veil of everyday reality into human life.... On the pages of this book, the reader will encounter unexplainable and ominous events that took place in an empty house in the very center of London and with a ghostly mummy-vampire that haunts the inhabitants of a manor in eastern England; they will read a story about a village cemetery that moved overnight to the other side of the river, and tales of a missing room and a 'cursed' hotel room; they will come face to face with the deceased Swedish count who once undertook a 'black pilgrimage' to the places where, according to legend, the Antichrist was born, and with dark, deadly mysteries from the Celtic past of the Cornwall peninsula... Among the authors developing these mystical plots are the classics of Victorian prose Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Montague Rhodes James, as well as the famous playwright Bernard Shaw.