The Swedish Match

About writings of this kind, Chekhov himself said: “Our newspapers split into two camps: some of them scare the public with editorials, others with novels… Such monsters have never existed before. You read it and you feel chilled … Murders, cannibalism, million-dollar losses, ghosts, fake maps, ruins of castles, owls, skeletons, sleepwalkers and… God knows what else exists in these irritations of a captive and tipsy mind!”