The chilling stories included in this collection may shock an unprepared person. Nightmarish murders and dismemberments, sinister ghosts and bloodthirsty vampires will descend from the pages of this book and will bring you several hours of fascinating reading, since all these stories were written by true masters of plot twisting. All rights reserved. The text is placed in the TarraNova archive with the permission of the translator. Any commercial use of this text without the knowledge and consent of the translator is prohibited.© Andrey Novikov, translation, 1997 (e-mail:[email protected])