Rudyard Kipling is a famous writer, poet and short story writer, the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Perhaps, it is rare for anyone to have such a successful literary fate: Kipling's works were enthusiastically accepted by critics and translated into three dozen languages, royalties turned out to be record—breaking, four collections of works were published during the author's lifetime - a truly unique case. "The House of Desires and other mystical Stories" is a complete collection of mystical and fantastic prose by the famous classic. Here, a ghostly rickshaw cart is accompanied by footmen in black and white livery, and a love charm helps the owner only if it was stolen, and preferably with bloodshed; here, the gods of the Hindu pantheon discuss in the night after the flood, whether to let the gigantic bridge, erected by builders with such difficulty, stand, and on the way to the greengrocer on Wadlows Road there is a House of Desires that allows you to take on someone else's misfortune ... Many of the stories and novellas that made up this collection have been translated into Russian for the first time, others are presented in new translations, the rest are in a new edition.