Summary of the book "The Ghost Club":The series "Mysterious Stories" is a collection of works of small prose written in the XIX — first half of the twentieth century. Stories that introduce readers to a world where the mundane coexists with the supernatural, where the fate of the characters is decided by fearsome otherworldly forces, and the very boundary between life and death turns out to be shaky, have long been popular. Steeped in dark colors, dramatic plots about ancestral curses, the mysteries of ancient portraits, deals with the devil, lost souls, ghosts, etc. became especially popular in the era of romanticism. But even later, readers' interest in them did not dry up: even in times of philosophical skepticism, the heyday of science and the triumph of technology, Gothic literature remains in demand, and the mysterious, inexplicable, wonderful still attracts and fascinates. The collection includes mystical stories by British and American writers, including such masters as Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mark Twain, Julian Hawthorne, Vernon Lee, Montague Rhodes James, H.G. Wells, Edward Frederick Benson. Read more…