Американская литература

Девятнадцатый том «Полного собрания сочинений» выдающегося американского писателя Джека Лондона (1876-1916) включает в себя остросюжетный роман «День …

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…

Молодой принц, наследник английского престола, желая «немного поразвлечься», меняется местами с похожим на него как две капли воды нищим. Очень скоро …

An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a crimin…

The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can inspire. The narrator then tells of his sole expe…

Что может быть увлекательней, чем заблудиться в пещере вместе с обожаемой девочкой или отправиться ночью на кладбище в компании верного друга и дохлой…

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 …

…Он рисковал. Рисковал снова и снова. Он играл со смертью. Играл, чтобы ощутить вкус к жизни. Он не мог существовать по-другому. Не знал иного способа…

The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas …

"The Descendant" is a story fragment, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story when he wrot…

Вы не мечтали в детстве найти клад? Не хотели удрать из дома? И всегда слушали советы взрослых? Вы просто ничего не знаете о Томе Сойере? Удивительные…

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

Что такое любовь? Нет, не любовь поэзии и песен, а просто – чувство? Что такое жизнь? Не жизнь в понимании философов и писателей, а просто – человечес…

According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar, forming the ci…

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…

A gentleman in New York begins renting an apartment one floor below an aged doctor, who insists on keeping his quarters very chilly. As the two become…

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…

"The Raven" is a narrative poem. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.

The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artifact known as the Shin…

Накануне захвата Нью-Йорка и завершения завоевания западного полушария и всего западного мира, была попытка эвакуировать несколько тысяч детей из обре…

In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. "The Cats of Ulthar…

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.

"The Colour Out of Space" is a 1st-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed Boston surveyor. In order to prepare for the constructi…

The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Ti…

Они познакомились, когда ей было шесть, а ему тридцать шесть. Они поженились, когда ей было двадцать три, а ему тридцать один. Потому что Генри страда…

As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political comm…

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 Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft. The story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian…

The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an…

Анна-Кейт приезжает из Бостона в уютный южный городок, расположенный у горного хребта, чтобы разобраться с наследством. Когда-то ее мать буквально сбе…

"A Horse's Tale" is a novel written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with …

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…

The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and most wide…

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem.It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably dying man. In his dreams, the man is walking thro…

Известный американский писатель Амброз Бирс – один из первооткрывателей жанра «страшного рассказа» – триллера, завоевавшего сегодня широкую популярнос…

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, …

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 is recounted by the protagonist, Comte Antoine de C-, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible f…

The short story is actually an excerpt from a letter Lovecraft wrote. It begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator’s companion refers to t…

«Деревушка» – первая книга трилогии Уильяма Фолкнера «Деревушка», «Город», «Особняк», посвященной трагедии аристократии американского Юга, которая ока…

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…

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 Book" is an unfinished short story H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal in 1938, aft…

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to…

Чарльз Буковски – один из крупнейших американских писателей XX века, автор более сорока книг, среди которых романы, стихи, эссеистика и рассказы. Несм…