In volume 8 of the “Library of Russian Science Fiction” are included fantastic works by Russian writers of the mid-19th century, including recognized classics—Dostoevsky, Turgenev, A. K. Tolstoy. “The Family of the Vurdalak” and “A Meeting After Three Hundred Years” form a cycle about the marquis D’Urfé; “Amena” is a fragment of the unpublished novel “Stebelovsky”; “The Great Inquisitor” is a fragment from “The Brothers Karamazov.” Other works are outside the cycle. As an appendix, the edition includes Belarusian tales about the unclean force—“Unclean Ones,” collected and published by N. Nikiphorovsky in 1902.
Contents:
A. K. Tolstoy (1817—1875)
The Family of the Vurdalak (short story, translation by Fedorov A. V.),
A Meeting After Three Hundred Years (short story, translation by Fedorov A. V.),
Uphyr (novella),
Amena (short story),
Grigory Danilevsky (1829—1890)
From the book “Christmas Evenings”
Life Through 100 Years,
Demon (short story),
Mikhail Mikhailov (1829—1865)
Beyond History (novella), pp. 182–238
Ivan Turgenev (1818—1883)
Ghosts (novella),
After Death (Klara Milich) (novella),
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821—1881)
Bobok: Notes of One Person (short story),
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (short story),
The Great Inquisitor,
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828—1889)
Steering Wheel for the Helmsman (short story),
Appendix.
Nikolay Nikiphorovsky (1945—1910)
Unclean Ones,
Yuri Medvedev
“... and illumination—abysses at the edge...” (article).