Club of Ghosts

The series "Mysterious Tales" is a collection of works of short prose written in the 19th - the first half of the 20th century. Stories that immerse readers in a world where the ordinary coexists with the supernatural, where the... fates of heroes are determined by fear-inspiring otherworldly forces, and where the very boundary between life and death turns out to be shaky have long been popular. Cloaked in dark colors, dramatic plots about family curses, mysteries of ancient portraits, deals with the devil, restless souls, ghosts, etc., became especially popular during the Romantic era. However, even later, readers' interest in them did not wane: even in times of philosophical skepticism, the flourishing of science, and the triumph of technology, gothic literature remains in demand, and the mysterious, unexplained, miraculous continues to attract and fascinate. The collection includes mystical stories by British and American writers, including masters such as Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mark Twain, Julian Hawthorne, Vernon Lee, Montague Rhodes James, Herbert Wells, Edward Frederick Benson.