1943, British officer Alan Querdilion escapes from a Nazi concentration camp. After getting lost among the endless forests of East Germany, he is transported to a strange world, a parallel reality, where he is captured again. This time it's in a vast estate owned by a mysterious, creepy count, the Reich's chief forester, known for his passion for hunting by moonlight. But he doesn't hunt with the help of dogs, and he's not chasing animals at all.…The novel "The Sound of his Horn", one of the standards of horror literature, was included in the hundred best books of the genre ("Horror: 100 Best Books" according to Kim Newman and Stephen Jones). Its author is the English writer and diplomat John William Wall, who remained in the golden fund of "dark" prose under the pseudonym Sarban. Due to his elegant writing style and mythological imagery, Sarban is often compared to Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur Machen and Walter de la Mare. However, this writer has his own unique voice and has long occupied an honorable place on the world literary Olympus, although he is almost unknown in Russia. This volume is intended to correct this unfortunate misunderstanding. The collection includes various works by Sarban: "The Sound of his Horn", "Sea Creatures", "House by the Road", "Calmahan" and others, in which, according to writer Kingsley Amis, "dreams and nightmares combine", and the laws of nature give way to the bizarre chaos of imagination.…