Ornithologist Porter decides to visit the island of Eiern, shrouded in dark legends. Locals believe that mermaids and newts emerge from the depths of the sea...

In the spring of 1880, 21-year-old medical student Arthur Conan Doyle received an unexpected offer to go on a six-month polar voyage on a whaling ship, which...

Contents: 1. How the governor of St. Kitt returned to his homeland 2. How Captain Sharkey and Stephen Craddock outsmarted each other 3. How Copley Banks fini...

When the frost draws magical patterns on the windows, the snow glitters mysteriously on the paths, and the streets are dressed up in bright garlands, people ...

“Doctor Watson was very pleased to be back in the untidy room on the second floor of the house on Baker Street, in the room where so many amazing adventures ...

The novel about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes "The Valley of Terror" is one of the best detective works of the world famous English writer Arthur Cona...

Cavalry officer Gerard is an adventurer and adventurer, of which there were indeed many in the army of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, which marched victoriously...

“Both of us, Holmes and I, had a weakness for Turkish baths. And when, in a pleasant languor, we smoked in the drying room, I found him less restrained and m...

“My friend Watson's ideas, although limited, are unusually sticky. For a long time he pestered me with demands that I write about some of my cases myself. Pe...

“Somewhere in the vaults of the Cox and Co Bank in Charing Cross rests a battered, battered tin pouch with my name “John H. Watson D.M., Servant.” in the Ind...

“Surprisingly, a problem, undoubtedly not inferior in mystery and unusualness to the most difficult that I have encountered during my long professional caree...

The collection includes rare fantastic, mystical and “horrible” stories by Western authors of the first decades of the 20th century. These works belong mainl...