One hundred years of the Russian Gothic novel such a subtitle could be given to a collection that united the names of so many different authors. The publication opens with "Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa" A. Pogorelsky, which is considered the first work in the domestic literature with a mystical plot, and ends with the story of A. Greene's "Grey Car" . Gothic comes into vogue in the early 19th century. Focusing on European samples, referring to folk legends, Russian writers of the 1820s and 1830s paid full tribute to this genre. Among them is A.. C. Pushkin and N. In. Gogol, A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and V. F. Odoevsky . The supernatural, beings from another world - ghosts, sorcerers, the dead, ghouls and other evil spirits - fill the pages of books But later interest in the mysterious, irrational, fantastic in Russian literature did not dry up, as evidenced by the works of A. K. Fat, and . C. Turgenev, N. C. Leskova and other authors . A new fascination with mysticism fell on the Silver Age, when they created their works A. and . Kuprin, F. Sologub, L. N. Andreev et al . Widely known works of Gothic prose coexist on the pages of the collection with rarely published works.