Strange stories
Бельгиец Жан Рэ (1887-1964) - авантюрист, контрабандист, в необозримом прошлом, вероятно, конкистадор. Любитель сомнительных развлечений, связанных с ловлей жемчуга и захватом быстроходных парусников. Кроме всего прочего, классик `черной фантастики`, изумительный изобретатель сюжетов, картограф инфернальных пейзажей.
"Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of Robert W. Chambers, since renowned for products of a very different quality. The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and suppressed book whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy, reall...
"Cold Hand in Mine" was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" won Aickman the World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in 1973 before appearing in this collection."Cold Hand in Mine" stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that sho...
В первый том Собрания сочинений, наиболее полного за всю историю издания Майринка на русском языке, вошел роман "Голем" (1915), принесший писателю европейскую и мировую славу. Роман Майринка - эзотерическое переосмысление средневековой европейской легенды о вылепленном из глины человекообразном существе, оживленном с помощью магических заклинаний. Фантасмагорическая история разворачивается на фоне...
The ultimate in subtle horror... Ligotti tells these stories with an eerie, elegant style whose words emphasize the strange as much as the events do. This collection of horror stories, many previously unpublished, includes "The Medusa," "Conversations in a Dead Language," and "Mad Night of Atonement." By the author of Grimscribe.
Widely praised and admired for his short stories, Robert Aickman wrote many pieces not previously printed in the United States. In this, his finest book to date, a large selection of his best fiction is collected.
Richard Barnham Middleton's "The Ghost Ship" is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature, about which Arthur Machen wrote, "I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels." Middleton himself (1882-1911) was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic B...
The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which Henry James is best remembered. Set in an English country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you fac...
In "Hi! Howya Doin!" an intrusive jogger meets with an abrupt fate; in "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza" a young woman's romantic view of her girlhood is devastated by her father's confessions; and in "Valentine, July Heat Wave" a man prepares a gruesome surprise for the wife who has betrayed him. In the title story, a young woman tries to rescue her mother from the museum of Dr. Mose...
British short story writer, critic, lecturer and novelist, Robert Aickman is considered by many to be one of the finest modern writers of ghost stories. But Aickman himself referred to his tales as "strange stories", for they are often open to more complex interpretations. The writing is subtle and poetic, presenting us with both psychological and more material terrors. Sub Rosa (first published 1...
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti, comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the grotesque, the devilish, and the perverse with rare intensity and astonishing craftsmanship. Collected here for the first time are nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror, including the World Fantasy Award-...
Four unusually literate horror novellas, by the former editor of "The Twilight Zone" magazine.
Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder, an Edwardian psychic detective, investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures. Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as "The Whistling Room", the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in "The Horse of the Invisible" and the demons from the outside world in "The Hog", C...
В книгу известного русского писателя Леонида Николаевича Андреева (1871–1919), человека разнообразно одарённого, автора тонких психологических произведений, вошли «неомифологический» роман «Сашка Жегулев», особым образом сочетавший в себе традиционный и новаторский стиль и отражающий дух революционной эпохи 1905 года, повесть «Мои записки», являющаяся исповедью узника, полюбившего свою тюрьму, а т...
M R James (1862 - 1936) was a writer and British medieval scholar. His well-known classic ghost stories have a Victorian Christmas theme. Although James is best known for his ghost stories, he produced many excellent scholarly works. He is also credited with cataloging libraries at Oxford and Cambridge. It is possible that the author is the central character in this ghost story wri...
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti. First published in 1991 by Carroll & Graf in the United States and Robinson Publishing in England, Grimscribe garnered significantly more recognition than Ligotti's first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, which was issued two years earlier by t...
In his Introduction to this new edition of Intrusions, Reggie Oliver writes that Robert Aickman (1914-1981) ‘was one of the most original and interesting short story writers of the late twentieth century . . . I wonder if the adjective “inconclusive”, so often applied to Aickman, is quite the mot juste. His stories all have a beginning, a middle and an end. They conclude, but the conclusion is not...
Sorworth Place Behind the stumps The princess of all lands The last god's dream The cellar of little Egypt Ex tenebris Balgrummo's hell There's a long, long trail a-winding Saviourgate
Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others
In Oxrun Station, the wind carries dark musics and dark magics . . . and summoning the wind can call you to your doom. The spectral sound of folk music was a sound not everyone could hear. Only those desperate for love heard the haunting notes--and had their lives forever altered.
