Американская литература

On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it.

Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams." As he ages, he finds that his daily waking exposure to the more "practical", scientific id…

The story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince. While Iranon enjoys singing and telling his tales of wo…

The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights from his window, in particular that of the Pole Star, Polaris, which he describes as "winking hi…

A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man piloting a mystical white ship is found sailing upon a bridge of moonlight. Elton joins the bearded ma…

Гарри Рикс – человек, который потерял все. Одна «романтическая» ошибка стоила ему семьи и работы. Когда разразился скандал, разрушивший его жизнь, Гарри сбежал… в Париж. Он влачит жалкое существо…

Эдгар По (1809–1849) – неповторимое явление в истории американской словесности. Он является предтечей современной фантастической и детективной литературы, создателем блестящих загадочных новелл и…

Молодой принц, наследник английского престола, желая «немного поразвлечься», меняется местами с похожим на него как две капли воды нищим. Очень скоро принц понимает, что жизнь бедного мальчика из…

Роман «Последний из могикан» является второй книгой в пенталогии о Натаниэле Бампо (как по дате публикации, так и по хронологии эпопеи). Это история о коварном захвате добродетельных дочерей полк…

…Он рисковал. Рисковал снова и снова. Он играл со смертью. Играл, чтобы ощутить вкус к жизни. Он не мог существовать по-другому. Не знал иного способа убежать от себя. Если убежать от себя вообще…

Что такое любовь? Нет, не любовь поэзии и песен, а просто – чувство? Что такое жизнь? Не жизнь в понимании философов и писателей, а просто – человеческая? Что такое счастье? Что такое память? Кто…

"The Raven" is a narrative poem. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.

"The Colour Out of Space" is a 1st-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed Boston surveyor. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he su…

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft. The story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula and is older than any human civili…

The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology…

The story is recounted by the protagonist, Comte Antoine de C-, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais…

"The Book" is an unfinished short story H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, …

An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.

The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity. One night the…

According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar, forming the cities of Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron (not t…