The collection of Susan Hill, a famous English writer, winner of prestigious national awards, includes four stories about otherworldly forces and ghosts. In these stories, with an exquisite gothic touch, the thin line between the real and the imaginary is erased, giving way to dark, tragic, mysterious phenomena. There are evil moths that flutter out of nowhere and turn the main character’s life into a real nightmare, a ghost boy who suddenly appears at a boarding school and just as unexpectedly disappears, and a mysterious new employee who makes the office smell of decay and death, and a bilious old woman who terrifies the whole family not only during life, but also after death, appearing at her stepson’s house and terrorizing the children. Mysterious and surreal, these stories are sometimes touching, sometimes creepy, sometimes funny. For the first time in Russian!