The Empire of Darkness has collapsed. In the decisive battle, the heroes who served the Runestaff died, but when one story ends, it is replaced by a new one,...

Three crazy stories by a low-class writer (notes from a crazy graphomaniac).

End of the 15th century. The beautiful Countess Caterina Sforza, illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, is the bravest female warrior Italy has ever kno...

Lucien Marwane and his childhood friend Catherine were always inseparable - but what could the youngest son, having no right to either a title or a family es...

A series of unrelated stories told by a crazy graphomaniac.

An admiral who betrayed the emperor and a lieutenant who went out alone against alien invaders, a careless student who asked for a freebie and a mercenary wi...

We bring to the attention of the Russian-speaking reader the world-famous novel by the Slovak writer Jozho Niznansky (1903–1976) “The Bloody Countess” (the o...

Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17, 1898 in Leeuwarden (Holland). He studied drawing at high school in Arnhem with F.V. van der Hagen, who introdu...

Here are original detective stories in which criminal stories, cases, and events of the 19th century are skillfully intertwined with modernity, connecting th...

“You never know how much they talk about this Bruce! I can’t remember everything. When I was a boy, I heard about him, and even now, it happens, they talk ab...

For three hundred years there has been an endless debate... Voltaire, who seemingly unraveled the mystery of the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas, who followed him...

Women rarely refuse the wicked Earl of Hepplewood, whose daring exploits are only whispered about. But when his new governess answers his proposition with...