"Never talk to strangers," says Mikhail Bulgakov in the opening chapter of "The Master and Margarita". "Never talk to strange women," we say in the latest installment of Moonlit Tales of the Macabre, "especially if what they offer appears to be entirely outside of the realm of reality or sanity." Enjoy this new collection of strange and terrifying tales by Russian and Ukrainian authors, as they take you into the world of dark sorcery and mind-bending magic. This collection includes the following works: - Viy by Nikolai Gogol - The Gray Automobile by Alexander Grin - The Sylph by Vladimir Odoyevsky - The Mistress of the Copper Mountain by Pavel Bazhov - The Malachite Box by Pavel Bazhov - Ghosts by Ivan Turgenev

You might be fast enough to run away from a werewolf. You might be clever enough to make your way out of a haunted castle. But how do you escape when something goes awry in the depths of your very own mind? This anthology includes the following mind-bending works: - The Lost Conscience by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin - The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov - Honse's Estate by Alexander Grin - A Funny Man's Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Faust by Ivan Turgenev - Foggy Day by Alexei Tolstoy - Cosmorama by Vladimir Odoyevsky - Nightmare by Alexander Grin

The first two volumes of Moonlit Tales of the Macabre dealt with human behavior when thrown in strange circumstances or when in contact with odd objects and creatures, as well as with questions of life, death, and everything that lies between. This new installment is dedicated to strange places – mansions, castles, cellars, and towers. You never know what might be hiding within the walls of a perfectly ordinary mental institution, or what you might find if you venture out to investigate a strange light in the window of an old fortress. Enter with care, as we present Moonlit Tales of the Macabre – Volume Three. This collection includes the following works: - Magical Mischief by Alexander Grin - The Witches' Castle by Alexander Belyaev - Kharitonov's Gold by Alexei Tolstoy - A Mysterious Incident at the Mental Institution by Nikolai Leskov - Terrible Revenge by Nikolai Gogol - The Ghost of the Engineering Castle by Nikolai Leskov

We, all of us, are hard-wired to fear the unknown, and what is more unknown than death, or rather, what happens after death? While each of the world’s philosophies has its own interpretation of the subject, there is really no telling for certain. In the six stories that follow, the authors not only consider death as such, but also whether there are things worse than death. This collection includes the following works: - The Wooden Guest or a Tale About a Doll That Came to Life and Monsieur Nodder by Vladimir Odoyevsky - The Sinner from Toledo by Anton Chekhov - The Eve of Ivan Kupala by Nikolai Gogol - The Silver Wolf by Alexander Kuprin - The Chickadee by Alexei Tolstoy - An Incident at the Apartment of Madam Cerize by Alexander Grin

He was the premier writer of horror fiction in the first half of the 20th Century, perhaps the major American practitioner of the art between the time of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. Born into an upper middle class family in Providence, Rhode Island, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) had a lonely childhood, but read voraciously from his earliest years. He soon became interested in science and astronomy and began penning stories, poetry, and essays in great profusion, publishing them himself when no other market was available. The advent of Weird Tales in 1923 gave him a small outlet for his work, and he attracted a large number of followers, with whom he exchanged literally tens of thousands of letters, many of them quite lengthy. A number of these young correspondents eventually became professional writers and editors themselves. Lovecraft's fame began spreading beyond fandom with the publication of his first significant collection, The Outsider and Others, in 1939, two years after his untimely death. Book jacket.

Dostoyevsky was never shy to play with the issues of human mind in his work. A funny man's dream is one of his shorter pieces that, nevertheless, lacks none of the profundity or the mind-bending power of his larger works.

Following on from the phenomenal success of NECRONOMICON comes ELDRITCH TALES. Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, and the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which feature within these pages. This collection gathers together the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, including the whole of the long-out-of-print collection FUNGI FROM YOGGOTH. Many of these stories have never been available in the UK! Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide numerous illustrations for this must-have companion volume to NECRONOMICON.