The almost detective story of a girl running away from an elite college turns into a postmodern, sophisticated version of the medieval legend of Magic, Power...

A middle-aged teacher falls passionately in love with a young artist who came to a small English town to paint a portrait of the former school principal. But...

Oh. Henry (1862–1910) is the pseudonym of William Sidney Porter, an eminent American short story writer famous for his brilliant, humorous stories. During hi...

Hairdresser Lyubochka, while cutting the hair of his regular client Vadim Kolosov, discovers from the gray in his hair that this is not the real Kolosov, but...

Gardner Dozois's annual anthology traditionally collects under one cover the best examples of the genre - novels and short stories that have won prestigious ...

Nicholas Spencer, president of the company that developed the cancer vaccine, crashes in his personal plane. Two weeks later, it is discovered that there is ...

The weather is bad, gravity has gone haywire, time itself is coming apart at the seams, the time for a new Big Brother is coming... Is it possible to save th...

A dizzying romance, which grew into a fleeting acquaintance between Kay Lansing, a modest librarian from New York, and Peter Carrington, the heir of an old a...

Contents: 1. I am a nonentity 2. Boomerang 3. You behaved very rudely 4. Unhurried 5. Abracadabra 6. No news 7. Dialogue 8. A thread to the heart 9. The only...

The talented author Aleksashin wrote an action-packed fantasy novel, on which the action movie “The Third Watch” was filmed, which broke all popularity recor...

Fairy-tale wonderful stories about little miner men who live next to us and little by little “borrow” different things. The Kurant family of miners is again ...

The second volume of the collected works of Edgar Poe includes his early stories. Masterfully using a fantastic plot and psychological tension, the writer “r...