A new case by the brilliant amateur detective Nadezhda Lebedeva! The loss of a beloved cat is always a tragedy for the owner, but Nadezhda immediately suspec...

“Metro 2033” by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translation...

The novel “The Red Room,” which brought Strindberg instant and resounding success, depicts in satirical tones the mores of the contemporary Swedish society o...

Romantic love for a stranger pits a young Englishman against representatives of French high society and... body snatchers. “A Room at the Flying Dragon Inn,”...

For fifteen years, the hero of the story has a strange dream in which he finds himself in a country mansion and the mistress of the house, Lady Stone, invite...

Republication of a collection of feuilletons from 1915 by the authors of the magazine “New Satyricon”, dedicated to Russia’s participation in the First World...

The collection brought to the attention of readers brings together works that, with some degree of convention, can be called “Gothic prose” (the origin of th...

Dickens's mysticism is very, very different (as, in fact, in the folklore that served as his inspiration) - poetic and naive, playful and serious. Some works...

An unknown young woman is brutally murdered, and her teenage son lies in a coma after a suicide attempt. FBI agents are trying to intervene in the investigat...

Ten years ago, several high-profile trials took place in England in which women were accused of killing their small children. The jury's verdict relied on th...

Did you know that our facial expressions are controlled by more than fifty facial muscles? And if you learn to tense and relax them at your own discretion, y...

This story is about what love can lead to, not limited by reason or the criminal code. About a victim of blackmail who confused bestial devotion with betraya...