Nina Voronel is a famous novelist, playwright, translator, and poet. But the main thing in her work is prose; she is the author of more than ten prose works....
The beautiful Countess Narona, who has earned the reputation of a femme fatale, is going to marry Lord Montbarry. Why is the countess so alarmed that on the ...
“...Of all those whom the witch could call from the forest, from the swamps, from the graves or the depths, no one was worse than the Red Bird. If only becau...
It's hard to cast magic when you've been deprived of your voice. It's hard to walk when your wounds hurt. It’s hard to fight against former friends. But the ...
An extensive collection of “terrible” French prose provides a fairly broad panorama of Gothic literature. It opens with the repeatedly translated and publish...
The mysterious and mystical narratives of European, American and Australian writers of the 19th - early 20th centuries collected in this book are united by t...
In a 1916 story by Heinz von Lichberg, a man falls in love with his landlady’s daughter—and her name is Lolita.In 1955 the writer Vladimir Nabokov became ...
In the novel “The Secret” by Wilkie Collins, the intrigue surrounding the fraudulent adoption of the child of her maid by an aristocrat is revealed. The asso...
From the author of the famous works “The Moonstone” and “The Woman in White”, another exciting novel of the Victorian era is “The Haunted Hotel: The Mystery ...
The collection brought to the attention of readers brings together works that, with some degree of convention, can be called “Gothic prose” (the origin of th...
Louis Romain could not even imagine that a trip to visit friends in London in an attempt to escape from difficult thoughts would drag him into a web of intri...