Жанр: Зарубежное: Прочее, Зарубежная литература

Жанр: Зарубежное: Прочее, Зарубежная литература

Жанр: Зарубежное: Прочее, Зарубежная литература

Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited. With great difficulty, Olney climbs the crag, approaches the house, and meets the mysterious man who lives there. The only door opens directly onto a sheer cliff, giving access only to mist and "the abyss". The transmittal of archaic lore and a life-altering encounter with the supernatural ensue, as Olney is not the only visitor that day. He returns to Kingsport the next day, but seems to have left his spirit behind in the strange, remote...

Жанр: Зарубежное: Прочее, Зарубежная литература

Жанр: Зарубежное: Прочее, Зарубежная литература

Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams." As he ages, he finds that his daily waking exposure to the more "practical", scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to dream as he once did, and has made him regretfully subscribe more and more to the mundane beliefs of everyday, waking "real life". But still not certain which is truer, he sets out to determine whether the waking ideas of man are superior to his...

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The story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince. While Iranon enjoys singing and telling his tales of wonder, few appreciate it. When a disenfranchised boy named Romnod suggests leaving Teloth to go to the famed city of Oonai (which he thinks may be Aira, now under a different name), Iranon takes him up on his...

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The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights from his window, in particular that of the Pole Star, Polaris, which he describes as "winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to...

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Второй роман знаменитой серии детективов про инспектора Ребуса – «Кошки-мышки» – вновь вызывает из небытия мрачный дух мистера Хайда. Неспроста инспектор Ребус взял в руки томик с повестью Стивенсона в ту самую минуту, когда раздался звонок и его вызвали на место происшествия. Казалось бы, обычный случай – молодой наркоман, передозировка, смерть. И все же отчего-то инспектора с самого начала «томило странное предчувствие». За несколько последующих дней он убеждается, что исхоженный им вдоль и поперек Эдинбург живет двойной жизнью, вернее, двойной жизнью – и какой! – живут многие эдинбуржцы, до поры до времени ухитряясь ловко сменять личины. Для того чтобы белое опять стало белым, а черное черным, Ребусу пришлось употребить весь свой ум – и навыки бывшего...

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The narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped by a tour guide, who resembles an ancient pharaoh, and thrown down a deep hole near the Great Sphinx of Giza. While attempting to find his way out, he stumbles upon a gigantic ceremonial cavern and encounters the real-life deity that inspired the building of the...

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This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail. These crumbling blocks of monolithic stone now serve only for grey toads and snakes to nest under. Interspersed in the ruins are large trees that are home to little apes. Through the bottom of this valley runs the great, slimy red river called...