The mystical stories of British and American writers collected in this book were created in the 19th - early 20th centuries - during the heyday of the horror story genre in the literature of the Old and New Worlds. Continuing the traditions of the European Gothic novel, the authors presented in the collection (including such masters as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, Montague Rhodes James, Edward Frederic Benson) create on the pages of their works a fascinating atmosphere of Fear and Mystery, opening the doors to the otherworldly and infernal dimensions of existence, involve heroes and readers in the area of metaphysical and psychological mysteries. Ghosts of the innocently murdered and dangerous fairies, ominous places and deadly artifacts from the past confirm the ancient Hamlet truth: “there are many things in heaven and earth” that the skeptical philosophy and rationalistic science of the New Age never dreamed of.