A Brownie's Stroll

Many critics believe that all Russian mysticism was created under the influence of Gothic novels and monstrous fantasies by Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley. The final volume of the anthology will dispel this misconception. Here are stories whose characters would not have appeared in the dreams of foreign masters of horror even in the scariest nightmares. You’ll meet evil spirits of every kind—from drunken devils to a friendly ghost that saves an innocent girl from a grim man in black. But how could it be without that? Still, there will be other plots too: the brave experiment of a doctor studying the nature of hallucinations; the confession of a boy raised by wild monkeys in the jungles (by the way, written nearly a hundred years earlier than "Tarzan"); revelations from a carriage driver who had to take a mysterious stranger through night-time St. Petersburg. Listen to the fifth volume of the "Anthology of Russian Mysticism"!