The fairy tale is undoubtedly the most mysterious literary genre. Mythologists and folklorists, philosophers and linguists, ethnographers and psychoanalysts ...

What is it like to be born into a sect, in the remote taiga, and throughout your adult life have a very misleading idea of what is going on in the Big Outsid...

At the age of seventeen, the life of Yuri Svarin, a sectarian from a remote Siberian village, changed dramatically. One day the Big Outer World itself came t...

The publication completes the publication of the earliest monument on the history of Korea - Samguk sagi (Historical Records of the Three States, 1145) by th...

Where did I end up? What happened? What the hell is magic? There are some costumed clowns around: a heap of corpses, a passed out grandfather, and a little s...

A series of novels about the magical land of Xanth, bordering on Ordinary. Magic there is an integral part of the life of every creature. Throughout the cycl...

Among all the wonderful characters, the most unusual fate befell the vampire. He went from an invisible or deformed creature that had nothing human in him, t...

Urban legends about secret "Country Clubs" have existed for years. In these Clubs, the rich and powerful pay for the privilege of tormenting less fortunate p...

It is unbearably painful to watch from the orbit of non-intervention as an entire civilization perishes before your eyes. It is especially painful and unbear...

Her voice, strong and beautiful, either flowed like a stream, or ran like a river, filling the hall. Arthur looked at her with loving eyes, and it seemed to ...

The stories and tales of English and American writers presented in this book are united, with all the variety of characters and situations, by a common place...