The City of Terrible Night and Other Mystical Stories

Rudyard Kipling is a famous writer, poet, and novelist, the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rarely has anyone had such a successful literary fate: Kipling's works were enthusiastically received by critics and translated into thirty languages, his fees were record-breaking, and four volumes of his collected works were published during the author's lifetime - a truly unique case. "The City of Terrible Night and Other Mystical Stories" is a collection of mystic-fantastic prose by the celebrated classic. Here, a ghostly rickshaw is accompanied by footmen in black and white liveries, a love amulet helps its owner only if it was stolen, preferably with bloodshed, and the gods of the Hindu pantheon discuss in the night after the flood whether to let the giant bridge, built with such difficulty by the builders, stand... Many stories and novellas that make up this collection have been translated into Russian for the first time, others are presented in new translations, and the rest are in new editions.