Classic prose

A traveler, stricken with a serious illness, stops for the night in an abandoned castle. In order to somehow pass the time, he looks at the paintings and rea...

A conversation between two lovers that took place... after their death.

We commit many actions solely from the spirit of Contradiction. We do them because we feel that we shouldn’t do them. And what is done does not always benefi...

Cousin is in love with his cousin. Both of them are seriously ill, mentally ill. Once Berenice was a beauty and loved her cousin, but he fell in love with he...

You shouldn't offend your wife the morning after the wedding - it can take your breath away. Completely and forever. You will have to invent ways of being wi...

The Angel of the Inexplicable comes to a person who does not believe in sometimes inexplicable cases that occur, who considers such stories to be fabrication...

A sealed bottle was discovered in the Sea of Darkness, and in it a strange manuscript dated 2848. This is a letter from a woman addressing her “dear friend” ...

Mr. Barnabas Shuttle is one of the wealthiest and most respected residents of the city. Gave my friend Mr. Charlie Dushkins a barrel of excellent wine. But n...

A brief historical sketch: the author and the reader went on a journey - the year 3830 from the creation of the world, the city of Antioch, the reign of Anti...

The narrator meets a general who distinguished himself in the last military campaign. This general is a man of rare beauty. But it is unknown what he had to ...

Excerpts from old manuscripts prompted von Kempelen to make a discovery: he had succeeded in realizing the old chimera about the philosopher's stone. Only th...

The story is dedicated to the fictional Folio Club, which always consisted of exactly eleven members, each of whom once a month presented to the public a sho...