VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann (ed.) - The Big Book of Classic Fantasy / Вандермеер, Джефф и Энн (ред.) - Большая книга классической фэнтези [2019, EPUB, ENG]

The Queen's Son by Bettina von Arnim Hans-My-Hedgehog / Ганс мой Ёж by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm The Story of the Hard Nut by E.T.A. Hoffmann Rip Van Winkle / Рип ван Винкль by Washington Irving The Luck of the Bean-Rows by Charles Nodier Transformation / Превращение by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The Nest of Nightingales by Théophile Gautier The Fairytale About a Dead Body, Belonging to No One Knows Whom / Сказка о мёртвом теле, неизвестно кому принадлежащем by Vladimir Odoevsky The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton / Рассказ о том, как подземные духи похитили пономаря by Charles Dickens The Nose / Нос by Nikolai Gogol The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Правда о том, что случилось с мсье Вальдемаром by Edgar Allan Poe The Story of Jeon Unchi by Anonymous Feathertop: A Moralized Legend / Хохолок by Nathaniel Hawthorne Master Zacharius / Мастер Захариус by Jules Verne The Frost-King: Or, The Power of Love by Louisa May Alcott The Tartarus of Maids / Ад для девиц by Herman Melville The Magic Mirror / Волшебное зеркало by George MacDonald The Diamond Lens / Бриллиантовая линза by Fitz-James O'Brien Goblin Market / Базар гоблинов by Christina Rossetti The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town / «Блуждающие огоньки в городе!» by Hans Christian Andersen The Legend of the Pale Maiden by Aleksis Kivi Looking-Glass House by Lewis Carroll Furnica, or the Queen of the Ants by Carmen Sylva The Story of Iván the Fool / Сказка об Иване-дураке и его двух братьях by Leo Tolstoy The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W. Chestnutt The Bee-Man of Orn / Человек-Пчела by Frank R. Stockton The Remarkable Rocket / Замечательная ракета by Oscar Wilde The Ensouled Violin / Ожившая скрипка by H. P. Blavatskaya The Death of Odjigh by Marcel Schwob The Terrestrial Fire by Marcel Schwob The Kingdom of Cards by Rabindranath Tagore The Other Side: A Breton Legend / Та сторона by Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady by Vernon Lee The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne The Plattner Story / История Платтнера by H. G. Wells The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure by Willa Cather The Reluctant Dragon / Дракон-лежебока by Kenneth Grahame Iktomi Tales by Zitkala-Ša Marionettes by Louis Fréchette Dance of the Comets: An Astral Pantomime in Two Acts by Paul Scheerbart The White People / Белые люди by Arthur Machen Blamol by Gustav Meyrink Goblins: A Logging Camp Story by Louis Fréchette Sowbread by Grazia Deledda The Angry Street / Сердитая улица by G. K. Chesterton The Aunt and Amabel by E. Nesbit Sacrifice / Жертва by Aleksey Remizov The Princess Steel by W. E. B. Du Bois The Hump by Fernán Caballero The Celestial Omnibus / Небесный омнибус by E. M. Forster The Legend of the Ice Babies by E. Pauline Johnson The Last Redoubt by William Hope Hodgson Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse / Джек Тыквенная Голова и Верстачок by L. Frank Baum The Plant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs Strange News from Another Star by Hermann Hesse The Metamorphosis / Превращение by Franz Kafka The Hoard of the Gibbelins / Сокровища Гиббеллинов by Lord Dunsany Through the Dragon Glass / Через драконье стекло by A. Merritt David Blaize and the Blue Door by E. F. Benson The Big Bestiary of Modern Literature by Franz Blei The Alligator War by Horacio Quiroga Friend Island / Остров — друг by Francis Stevens Magic Comes to a Committee by Stella Benson Gramophone of the Ages / Граммофон веков by Yefim Zozulya Joiwind by David Lindsay Sound in the Mountain by Maurice Renard Sennin by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Koshtra Pivrarcha by E. R. Eddison At the Border by Der Nister The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan by W. B. Laughead Talkative Domovoi / Словоохотливый домовой by Aleksandr Grin The Ratcatcher / Крысолов by Aleksandr Grin The Shadow Kingdom / Королевство теней by Robert E. Howard The Man Traveling with the Brocade Portrait by Edogawa Ranpo A Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov The Water Sprite's Tale / Сказка водяного by Karel Čapek The Capital of Cat Country by Lao She Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove Uncle Monday by Zora Neale Hurston Rose-Cold, Moon Skater by María Teresa León A Night of the High Season by Bruno Schulz The Influence of the Sun by Fernand Dumont The Town of Cats by Hagiwara Sakutarō The Debutante by Leonora Carrington The Jewels in the Forest / Драгоценности в лесу by Fritz Leiber Evening Primrose / Вечерняя примула by John Collier The Coming of the White Worm / Пришествие белого червя by Clark Ashton Smith The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls by Marcel Aymé Leaf by Niggle / Лист кисти Ниггля by J. R. R. Tolkien

IN AN OLD ABBEY TOWN, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago—so long, that the story must be a true one, because our great-grandfathers implicitly believed it—there officiated as sexton and grave-digger in the churchyard, one Gabriel Grub. It by no means follows that because a man is a sexton, and constantly surrounded by the emblems of mortality, therefore he should be a morose and melancholy man; your undertakers are the merriest fellows in the world; and I once had the honour of being on intimate terms with a mute, who in private life, and off duty, was as comical and jocose a little fellow as ever chirped out a devil-may-care song, without a hitch in his memory, or drained off a good stiff glass without stopping for breath. But notwithstanding these precedents to the contrary, Gabriel Grub was an ill-conditioned, cross-grained, surly fellow—a morose and lonely man, who consorted with nobody but himself, and an old wicker bottle which fitted into his large deep waistcoat pocket—and who eyed each merry face, as it passed him by, with such a deep scowl of malice and ill-humour, as it was difficult to meet without feeling something the worse for. A little before twilight, one Christmas Eve, Gabriel shouldered his spade, lighted his lantern, and betook himself towards the old churchyard; for he had got a grave to finish by next morning, and, feeling very low, he thought it might raise his spirits, perhaps, if he went on with his work at once. As he went his way, up the ancient street, he saw the cheerful light of the blazing fires gleam through the old casements, and heard the loud laugh and the cheerful shouts of those who were assembled around them; he marked the bustling preparations for next day’s cheer, and smelled the numerous savoury odours consequent thereupon, as they steamed up from the kitchen windows in clouds. All this was gall and wormwood to the heart of Gabriel Grub; and when groups of children bounded out of the houses, tripped across the road, and were met, before they could knock at the opposite door, by half a dozen curly-headed little rascals who crowded round them as they flocked upstairs to spend the evening in their Christmas games, Gabriel smiled grimly, and clutched the handle of his spade with a firmer grasp, as he thought of measles, scarlet fever, thrush, whooping-cough, and a good many other sources of consolation besides. . . .