Bewitchingly deep, intelligent, sparkling with humor and amazing with dashing plot twists, the amazing fairy tales of Diana Wynne Jones have captivated millions of readers around the world. This edition includes two stories at once that will not leave indifferent either long-time fans of the writer’s work or those who are new to meets her magical worlds. The novel “The House Beyond the Threshold” will give you a meeting with heroes wandering between worlds. Hostages of someone else's Game, they can only hope that someday the next transition will put an end to their exile and return them home. But this hope is the heaviest anchor in the Chains of Wanderers. And only the one who loses her forever will be able to change the rules of the grandiose and merciless Game. “The Time of Ghosts” will tell about the sisters, whose childhood game awakened an ancient and greedy pagan deity to life. To redeem the sacrifice it requires, one of the sisters will have to go back seven years ago, as a ghost, leaving her body in the future, between life and death. For the first time in Russian!