Американская литература

The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a Lieutenant Command...

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional ...

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary ...

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures resembling a cross betwee...

The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings...

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

Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the "gods of earth", or Great Ones, attempts t...

Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange h...

The Terrible Old Man is a strange elderly man "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that f...

Some of H. P. Lovecraft's most fascinating work came from a time in his life that he was forced, by economic survival, t...

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft. The story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere...

A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the c...

The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurr...

A gentleman in New York begins renting an apartment one floor below an aged doctor, who insists on keeping his quarters ...

The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an anci...

The short story is actually an excerpt from a letter Lovecraft wrote. It begins in the attic of an ancient house. The na...

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, ...

Circles and pentagrams loomed on every hand, and told indubitably of the strange beliefs and aspirations of those who dw...

According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a la...

"The Descendant" is a story fragment, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been referring to this a...

The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can inspire. The narrat...

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

In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town call...

Sailors kill a 50 foot creature at sea after a lengthy battle. The creature bears strange anatomical irregularities such...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who...

In "The Masque of the Red Death" Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors – of the d...

"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stori...

The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for bre...

The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year and is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend w...

"Ligeia" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1838. «Ligeia» is widely considered to be on...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been ...

"The Fall of the House of Usher" recounts the terrible events that befall the last remaining members of the once-illustr...

Джеймс Кервуд родился в 1878 году в американском городе Оуоссо (шт. Мичиган).

«На железнодорожном мосту, в северной части Алабамы, стоял человек и смотрел вниз, на быстрые воды в двадцати футах под ...

«– Неужели вы не знали, что раненого оленя обычно добивают его же друзья и товарищи?»

Что такое любовь? Нет, не любовь поэзии и песен, а просто – чувство?

Роман Шоу «Молодые львы» обрел славу едва ли не в момент написания – и продолжает пользоваться заслуженной популярностью...

В 1853 году книга «12 лет рабства» всполошила американское общество, став предвестником гражданской войны. Через 160 лет...

Джек Керуак (Жан-Луи Лебри де Керуак, 1922–1969) – писатель-эпоха, писатель-парадокс, посеявший ветер и не успевший толк...