The collection includes short stories and short stories that reveal the multifaceted talent of Maurice Renard (1875-1939) Neo-Gothic horrors, paleo-fiction, romantic legends, unheard-of inventions, sarcastic fantasies... All this stylistic and thematic diversity is fully inherent in Maurice Renard, a classic of French science fiction and sci-fi literature. "Extraordinary Stories" M. Renard was first published by M. G. Kornfeld in St. Petersburg in 1912 . (in the series "The Blue Journal Library"). The book is published on this edition in a new spelling, with the correction of typos, some outdated spelling and punctuation features, and a number of outdated turns. Subpage notes - from 1912 edition.