Ужасы и Мистика
Различные книги в жанре Ужасы и МистикаThe Statement of Randolph Carter
A mysterious book suggests that doors or stairways exist between the surface world and the underworld through which demons may travel, and two men investigate one such portal.
The Starcomber
Take two parts of Beelzebub, two of Israfel, one of Monte Cristo, one of Cyrano, mix violently, season with mystery and you have Mr. Solon Aquila. He is tall, gaunt, sprightly in manner, bitter in expression, and when he laughs his dark eyes turn into wounds. His occupation is unknown. He is wealthy without visible means of support. He is seen everywhere and understood nowhere.
The Silver Key
A man discovers, at the age of 30, 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. Not certain which is truer, he sets out to determine whether the waking ideas of man are superior to his dreams.
The Quest of Iranon
A golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince.
The Picture in the House
A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a «loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man.»
The Outsider
The miserable and apparently lonely life of an individual who appears to have never had contact with another individual.
The Other Gods
A high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the gods of earth attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple. But the gods of the earth are not there alone.
The Nameless City
An ancient ruin located in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula is older than any human civilization, and was built and inhabited by a race of reptiles.
The Music of Erich Zann
A university student is forced to take the only lodging he can afford, in an almost empty building in a strange part of the city. One of the few other tenants plays strange melodies never heard before.
The Moon-Bog
An Irish-American reclaims an ancestral estate in Ireland and ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.