Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт написал сотни завораживающих историй и только одну знаменитую статью. Но какую! В 1927 году он опубликовал эссе «Сверхъестественный ужас в литературе», над которым трудился более двух лет. В этом исследовании сформулирован главный принцип жанра хоррор: «В рассказе о...

"William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed «„The Dean of American Letters“». He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including...

"The Ghost Pirates is a horror novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1909. In it, Hodgson never describes in any remarkable details the ghosts – if this is indeed what they are, since their true nature is left ambiguous – he merely reports on their gradual...