Living statues, strange places, ghosts saving mortals, destroying arrogant braggarts and even marrying each other, malicious adherents of black magic, deals with the devil, restless souls of murderers, attempts to look into the future - about this and much more The other is narrated by Amelia Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, Arthur Gray, Montagu Rhodes James and other classics of the Victorian Gothic short story whose works are included in this collection. Under their pen, reality continually loses its usual boundaries of space and time, the sublunary world reveals its secrets, and common truths double and blur in the unsteady reflections of another - otherworldly - life... And even skeptics have to agree that not everything can be explained : “Before, I thought about so-called supernatural phenomena only by chance and in passing, and therefore I did not believe in them. Now I had to admit that the incident of that night was one of those that my philosophy had never dreamed of” (Edmund Mitchell. The Phantom of the Lake).