I am rare
В произведении П. Корнеля «Пути к раю. Комментарии к потерянной рукописи» заявлен новый подход к такому доселе маргинальному литературному жанру, как комментарии. В отсутствии текста собственно романа (утерян? а возможно, вообще не был написан) писатель получает уникальную возможность воссоздать некое целое, прокладывая свой путь в лабиринте. Именно это и открывает, по мнению М. Павича, перед П.Ко...
В сборнике исследуются исторические корни фольклорной эротики и ее место в традиционной культуре русского и других славянских народов. В большинстве статей широко использованы неизвестные ранее материалы (древнерусские рукописные и археологические источники, архивные и полевые записи). Особое внимание уделено миру женщины и его отражению в фольклоре, мифологии, обрядах, традиционной символике.
Эта книга, посвященная придворному театру барокко и Просвещения и его декорациям, состоит из нескольких глав-эссе. Прослеживая в них судьбу классических иконографических схем и популярных сюжетов на протяжении двух столетий, автор рассматривает возникновение и постепенное ослабление символической функции иллюзорной театральной архитектуры, как формы репрезентации монаршей власти. На конкретных при...
Вниманию читателя предлагаются четыре больших тематическисмысловых блока из текста, посвященного «странному» (или, метафорически выражаясь, «темному» и даже «ночному») Тургеневу. Это «странное», для многих читателей Тургенева вообще скрытое или лишь слабо подозреваемое и уж во всяком случае, как правило, недооцениваемое (впрочем, не только читателями, но и многими исследователями), особенно отч...
A pioneering, richly interdisciplinary volume, this is the first work in any language on a subject that has long attracted interest in the West and is now of consuming interest in Russia itself. The cultural ferment unleashed by the collapse of the Soviet Union reawakened interest in the study of Russian religion and spirituality. This book provides a comprehensive account of the influence of occu...
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 This collection of horror stories, many previously unpublished, includes "The Medusa," "Conversations in a Dead Language," and "Mad Night of Atonement."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.
Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of “The Great White Space,” described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the extremities of the universe. Plowright, Scarsdale, and the rest of their crew embark on the Great Northern Expedition, traversing a terrifying and desolate la...
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...
A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. "Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece." - Thomas Ligotti
Collapse IV features a series of investigations by philosophers, writers and artists into Concept Horror. Contributors address the existential, aesthetic, theological and political dimensions of horror, interrogate its peculiar affinity with philosophical thought, and uncover the horrors that may lie in wait for those who pursue rational thought beyond the bounds of the reasonable. This unique vol...
Arthur Machen is perhaps best known for his shorter supernatural and horror fiction. He first achieved notoriety in the Decadent 1890s with his story ‘The Great God Pan’, and ‘The Bowmen’ was the origin of the ‘Angels of Mons’ myth during the First World War. Tales of Horror and the Supernatural collects together the best of Arthur Machen’s short stories and novellas and contains: The Novel of the...
This superb and atmospheric novel, first published in 1974 to widespread critical acclaim, is a harrowing story of revenge, alienation, genealogy, history, and the occult. Set in an isolated apartment complex targeted for destruction in a gloomy section of Brooklyn, it is one of the finest horror novels ever written, drenched with superbly drawn characters, symbolism and fear right up to its shock...
Internationally acclaimed as one of Britain's most respected folklore scholars, Katharine Briggs(1898-1980) was also one of the most popular authors in the field. These "Selected Works provide facsimile editions of her landmark writings, spanning the whole of her publishing career, from 1959 to 1980.
The centerpiece of this rare collection, "The Beckoning Fair One," is widely regarded as a classic of the horror genre. At first blush, it's a conventional haunted house story involving an unsuccessful writer, who moves into an empty house in hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend, and h...
A female killer stalks the streets of London, sleeping with young men before slashing their throats and mutilating their bodies. The crimes have baffled the police and enraged Londoners, who demand the murderer's arrest. Mary, Duchess of Dove, a gentle young widow who is beloved by all who know her, seems an unlikely suspect, but the clues all point to her. The police have a variety of theories -...
The remote western coast of Ireland: a place of rock and mist and lashing waves, where the old customs and the oldest fears are still alive. Jack Quinlan, an American writer, is researching a book on the horrors of the Irish Famine. As the days pass, and the longer nights, the darkness of history parts ... only to reveal an even greater darkness in the present.
Edward Frederick Benson (1867-1940) was the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. He wrote over a hundred books during his lifetime, including the extremely successful Mapp & Lucia novels. It was his ghost stories for which he was best known in his day, and which represent probably his best writing. For the first time, these stories are reprinted in one volume, bringing together material that has...
Includes the novella, Sardonicus, and 16 other short stories.
A novel of decadence and mystic existentialism, "Fantazius Mallare" is a story of a mad recluse--a genius sculptor and painter who is at war with reason. Rather than commit suicide, his doting madness dictates that he must revolt against all evidence of life that exists outside himself. He destroys all of his work and then seeks out a woman who will devote herself to his Omnipotence. What follows...
Two great novels: definitive fictionalization of mutated superman and an alien intelligence finds himself in an all too "human" world.
Emily Blake has begun to hear stranger disembodies voices calling to her in her home.
The Cook may be described as a fable of horror and delight. The sinister weapons are marvelous food, flattery and, if necessary, neatly accidental murder...
