мистика
Фаэрверн навсегда
Лесса Каури
Обстоятельства встречи Тамарис Камиди и Викера ар Нирна не оставляли для совместного будущего ни единого шанса. Ведь они такие разные: как небо и земля, как огонь и вода, как… мужчина и женщина! Сумеют ли они выполнить задуманное? Смогут ли...
Гвенди и ее волшебное перышко
Ричард Чизмар
С тех пор как Гвенди Питерсон в последний раз видела таинственного незнакомца в аккуратной черной шляпе, минуло пятнадцать лет. Она давно стала взрослой женщиной, известной писательницей и конгрессменом – и вполне довольна своей жизнью. Впереди...
Людоедоед
Александр Рудазов
Существует тема, на которую писатели говорить не любят. А именно – откуда же все-таки берутся идеи и сюжеты? Обычно либо отбрехиваются, что просто выдумывают все сами, либо начинают кивать о некоем вдохновении, приходящем свыше. Но истина...
Беги, ведьма
Татьяна Корсакова
Белые стены больницы… надрывный скрип колесиков инвалидного кресла… тонкая игла, вводящая в кровь почти смертельный яд… Пожалуй, Арина еще никогда не была так близко к смерти. Она, получившая дар колдовства вместе с черной ведьмовской кровью,...
Суккуба
Евгений Щепетнов
Девушка из провинциального городка приезжает на «завоевание» Москвы. Перипетии судьбы заставляют ее бежать и прятаться от недоброжелателей, и в поиске работы она попадает в некую «Корпорацию», где ей предлагают то, на что она никогда бы не...
Жар-Цвет
Александр Амфитеатров
«Несмотря на жаркое утро, на эспланаде островного города Корфу было людно: с почтовыми пароходами при шли новые газеты с обоих берегов – из Италии и из Греции, и корфиоты поспешили в кафе: узнавать на полударовщинку, что случилось за прошедшие...
Убийца
Роберт Льюис Стивенсон
«– Да, – сказал антиквар, – наши барыши возрастают от разного рода обстоятельств. Одни покупатели бывают невежественны, не понимают толк в вещах, и тогда мы наживаемся на их невежестве, то есть взымаем с них известный дивидент за свое...
Вий
Николай Гоголь
«…Раздался петуший крик. Это был уже второй крик; первый прослышали гномы. Испуганные духи бросились, кто как попало, в окна и двери, чтобы поскорее вылететь, но не тут-то было: так и остались они там, завязнувши в дверях и окнах. Вошедший...
Альтист Данилов
Владимир Орлов
Незаконнорожденный получеловек-полудемон Данилов оказался абсолютно непригоден для злых дел и был сослан на землю, для вечного проживания в человеческом обличье. Небесная канцелярия Того света не лишила его демонских способностей, и при желании...
Хозяйка старого дома
Лена Обухова
Рядом с подмосковным городом стоит старая, полуразрушенная усадьба, по которой, как говорят, бродит призрак Хозяйки. Хозяйка не терпит вторжения на свою территорию, но Юля с друзьями легенду усадьбы не знали, а потому провели там веселый вечер....
The Strange High House in the Mist
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It concerns a character traveling to the titular house which is perched on...
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" is a short story co-written by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price between October 1932 and April 1933. A sequel to Lovecraft's «The Silver Key», and part of a sequence of stories focusing...
The Colour out of Space
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the «blasted heath» in the...
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction...
The Dreams in the Witch House
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. Walter Gilman, a...
The Horror at Red Hook
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Horror at Red Hook" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on August 1–2, 1925. «Red Hook» is a transitional tale, situated between the author's earlier work and the later Cthulhu Mythos. Although the story depicts a...
The Music of Erich Zann
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. Due to lack of funds, a university student is forced to take up lodging in...
The Shadow out of Time
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. The Shadow Out of Time indirectly tells...
The Statement of Randolph Carter
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the...
The Transition of Juan Romero
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 16, 1919, and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volume Marginalia. The story involves a mine that uncovers a very...
The Cats of Ulthar
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the...
The Haunter of the Dark
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5-9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales. It was the last-written of the author's known works, and is part...
The Picture in the House
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July issue of The National Amateur—which was published in the summer of 1921. While riding on his bicycle in...
The Rats in the Walls
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924. In 1923, an American named Delapore, the last descendant of the De la Poer family,...
The Thing on the Doorstep
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe. It was written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Daniel Upton, the story's...
The Whisperer in Darkness
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to The Colour Out of Space (1927), it is a blend of horror and...
The Call of Cthulhu
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Call of Cthulhu" by Howard Phillips H. P. Lovecraft is one of the classic horror works, so called “Lovecraft horrors”. American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic...
Herbert West–Reanimator
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"Herbert West–Reanimator" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was...
In the Vault
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"In the Vault' is a short story by American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal Tryout. George Birch, undertaker for the New England...
Pickman's model
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales. It was adapted for television in a 1971 episode of the Night Gallery anthology series, starring...
The Dunwich Horror
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Dunwich Horror" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is...
The Lurking Fear
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. The story is narrated by an unnamed seeker of “strange...
The Nameless City
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story. ...
The Other Gods
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Other Gods" is a fantasy short story written by American author H. P. Lovecraft, on August 14, 1921. It was first published in the November 1933 issue of The Fantasy Fan. Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the...
The Shunned House
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Shunned House" is a horror fiction novelette by American author H.P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. For many years, the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu...
The Silver Key
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Silver Key" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1926, it is considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It is a continuation of «The...
Under the Pyramids
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"Under the Pyramids" (in draft form, also published as «Entombed with the Pharaohs») is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in collaboration with Harry Houdini in February 1924. Commissioned by Weird Tales founder...
Cool Air
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. The narrator offers a story to explain why a «draught of cool air» is...
From Beyond
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"From Beyond" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934. The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his...
The Festival
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. The story was inspired by Lovecraft's first trip to Marblehead, Massachusetts, in December 1922. Lovecraft later...
The Hound
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Hound" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon. The story focuses around the...
The Outsider
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for...
The Temple
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales #24 in September 1925. The story is narrated as a «found manuscript» penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a...
The Tomb
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Tomb" is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his...
The Unnamable
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Unnamable" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September 1923, first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and first collected in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. The corrected text appears in...
Dagon
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. Dagon was later...
Necronomicon
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft: Commemorative Edition is a select collection of horror short stories, novellas and novels written by H. P. Lovecraft. This collection includes stories by H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of...
A May Night
Николай Гоголь
"May Night, or the Drowned Maiden", 1831 is the third tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was made into the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1878–79 and also a Ukrainian setting by Mykola...
Christmas Eve
Николай Гоголь
"Christmas Eve" (Russian: Ночь пе́ред Рождество́м, Noch pered Rozhdestvom, which literally translates as «The Night Before Christmas») is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. ...
Memoirs of a Madman
Николай Гоголь
Memoirs of a Madman or Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered to be one of Gogol’s greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil...
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