Американская классика

«Он был только мальчонкой, распевающим дискантом морскую песню, какую поют моряки всего земного шара, стоя у шпиля и поднимая якорь, чтобы отплыть в п…

«Ты – единственное существо со свободной волей! Как тебе это нравится?» – эти строки прочитал Дуэйн Гувер в романе писателя-фантаста Килгора Траута, с…

Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking th…

It is a recording of a dream, where the main protagonist is a Roman military official in the Basque country near Pompelo. The countryside is, every ye…

The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a ficti…

Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of …

Роман, оказавший серьезное влияние на всю американскую литературу. Классика XX века. Глубокий Юг, каким видел, знал, любил и ненавидел его Фолкнер. Зе…

The Terrible Old Man is a strange elderly man "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name". He liv…

Carter, a weird fiction writer, meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of A…

A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he had never seen before, …

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a sup…

Джеймс Фенимор Купер (1789–1851) – американский писатель, чьи произведения еще при жизни автора завоевали огромную популярность как в США, так и в Евр…

The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial German Navy…

On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it.

This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail. These crumbling blocks …

Six bone-chilling tales of bizarre beauty and awesome horror lurk in the dark of the soul, waiting to be called upon by the demons of nightmares, and …

Джеймс Фенимор Купер (1789–1851) – американский писатель, чьи произведения еще при жизни автора завоевали огромную популярность как в США, так и в Евр…

Daniel Upton, the story's narrator, begins by telling that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that …

The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so gr…

An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he …

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures resembling a cross between a fish and a frog, which liv…

A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man piloting a mystical white ship is found sailing upon a br…

"The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer. While still a child, he discovers the entrance to a mausoleum, belonging to the famil…

In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact.

The narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. Set in 191…

«Поздний» Воннегут – во всей безжалостной жестокости его острого таланта. Странная история Руди Вальца – скромного фармацевта и незадачливого драматур…

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 Sta…

The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss t…

Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the "gods of earth", or Great Ones, attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg…

Hypnos is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent, England. The narrator writes that he fears sle…

«Правда! Я нервный – очень даже нервный, просто до ужаса, таким уж уродился; но как можно называть меня сумасшедшим? От болезни чувства мои только обо…

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 Iran…

At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate which has been held in trust since his disappearance the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, …

Some of H. P. Lovecraft's most fascinating work came from a time in his life that he was forced, by economic survival, to ghostwrite, collaborate and …

The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often…

Остросюжетный роман американского писателя Джеймса Оливера Кервуда, жившего и творившего на стыке столетий, как и многие из его произведений, посвящен…

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 ex…

The story describes a surreal dreamscape. The narrator wanders through his garden one night and in the moonlight sees strange and bizarre things.

The narrator, hearing tales of a "lurking fear" upon Tempest Mountain in the Catskills, takes two men with him to investigate. They camp inside the de…

Circles and pentagrams loomed on every hand, and told indubitably of the strange beliefs and aspirations of those who dwelt so squalidly here. In the …

Известный роман американского писателя Джеймса Оливера Кервуда о трогательной дружбе осиротевшего медвежонка Мусквы и огромного медведя Тэра. Книга пр…

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft which tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of t…

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-…

The story describe the appearance of Nyarlathotep as a "man" of the race of the Pharaohs, who claims to have been dormant for the past twenty-seven ce…

Sailors kill a 50 foot creature at sea after a lengthy battle. The creature bears strange anatomical irregularities such as a single large eye and rud…