Not all fairy tales can be told to children. For example, a fairy tale about a kingdom far, far away, in which one day they lost something that should never ...

Hell strictly charges for the right to control its power. Not always with silver or copper, much more often with one’s own blood, flesh or mind. His forbidde...

To the first volume of the Collected Works of E.-T.-A. Hoffman (1776–1822) includes “Fantasies in the Manner of Callot” (1814–1819), which made him famous, t...

They say that Crane, the youngest crown prince of the land of Aldion, committed an unthinkable sacrilege - he killed an unarmed old magician - and suffered c...

Young Grimbert, heir to the Margrave of Turin, wanted to be a knight since childhood. Brought up on chivalric novels, painfully ambitious, ardent, he cannot ...

The strong commands the weak - this is how the world works. The powerless peasant trembles before the greedy baron. The Baron trembles before the all-powerfu...

Grimbert, Margrave of Turin, nicknamed the Spider by many ill-wishers, was distinguished from childhood by his penchant for political intrigue, and considere...

Maguilers are not good magicians from fairy tales. Instead of robes they wear the uniforms of the Kaiser's army, instead of incantations - the rude language ...

And then an angular alien shadow flashed in the triplex, and Lieutenant Shevchenko froze. Either the fog imperceptibly became more transparent, or his imagin...

Ethelberd Maader, nicknamed Marten, is not the most pleasant person on Pasipha, a tiny moon of Jupiter that has survived a devastating war and turned into a ...

—And then there was a big advertising crisis, when many people went crazy or died. Complete oversaturation to the point of losing touch with reality. And it ...

It may be hard to believe, but Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin did not actually die in the spring of 1953. By the will of an unknown force, his spirit was trans...