Russian Ghost Stories: An Anthology (The Parapet Press Russian Library)

Twelve tales from the dark side of the Russian imagination.The dead who will not stay buried. A portrait whose painted eyes will not close. A village where, after dark, the living belong to the vourdalak. For a hundred years the great Russian writers returned to one threshold — the one between the living and the dead — and brought back some of the most unsettling fiction ever set down.Russian Ghost Stories gathers twelve of those tales in new English translations, arranged in four movements. Pushkin's gambler hunts a secret worth a life. Gogol's seminarian keeps watch over a coffin that does not stay shut. Dostoevsky stoops to the chatter of the graveyard. Chekhov watches a brilliant man courted by a black monk who may be madness or may be grace. Andreyev follows Lazarus back out of the tomb and asks what a man carries home from the grave.The Returning Dead — The Queen of Spades (Pushkin) · Clara Militch (Turgenev) · The Portrait (Gogol)Blood and the Folk — Viy (Gogol) · The Terrible Divination (Bestuzhev-Marlinsky) · The Family of the Vourdalak (A. K. Tolstoy) · Upyr (A. K. Tolstoy)Visions and the Other Side — Cosmorama (Odoevsky) · Shtoss (Lermontov) · Bobok (Dostoevsky)From Beyond — The Black Monk (Chekhov) · Lazarus (Andreyev)A collection for readers of classic horror and of Russian literature alike: the canonical masters beside the writers the canon left in shadow.Pushkin · Gogol · Turgenev · Dostoevsky · Lermontov · Odoevsky · A. K. Tolstoy · Bestuzhev-Marlinsky · Chekhov · AndreyevTranslated from the Russian by Nina Lebedeva. Adapted by J. Alderman Lyell. Parapet Press. Read more