Последние издания книг Уильяма Фрайра Харви

На страницах рассказов англо-американских писателей XIX–XX веков читатель встретится с хорошо знакомыми сказочными персонажами и призраками, обитающими в старинных домах, с учеными-оккультистами и опасными артефактами, с ведьмами и демонами. О вторжениях зловещего и сверхъестественного в повседневную жизнь, о драматичных столкновениях суеверий прошлого и скептицизма настоящего повествуют – иногда в шутку, иногда всерьез, порой неспешно, а порой с почти детективным напряжением – мастера готических историй Элизабет Гаскелл, Генри Джеймс, Эдит Уортон, Джон Бакан, Уильям Фрайер Харви и другие авторы. Большинство произведений, вошедших в сборник, печатаются в новых переводах, ряд рассказов публикуется на русском языке впервые.

"August Heat" is a short story by British author, W. F. Harvey. The tale tells of two strangers, whose futures are, potentially, intertwined in the most terrible way.

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William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, particularly in the mystery and horror genres. August Heat is one of his best -nown stories. It tells a most peculiar tale of James Clarence Withencroft, an artist who is inspired to draw a sketch of a prisoner in the dock, being sentenced. Later the same day, he goes out for a walk and happens upon a stonemason's workshop, where he meets the very man he drew in his earlier sketch. The stonemason is working on a tombstone bearing the name of James Clarence Withencroft, with the artist's correct birth date...and a death date of today. What can it all mean? As the story hurtles to its terrifying denoument, the reader is swept breathlessly along with the narrative. Fabulous!

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres.

Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories.

The Dabblers

is a mysterious tale of strange rituals in the grounds of a boarding school on a particular night in June every year. Weird singing can be heard...and the locals mutter that The Dabblers are abroads.

But who are the mysterious Dabblers, and what are they doing abroad at midnight? One schoolteacher sets out to discover the secret....

' - the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook. 'We'll keep it there until it dies,' he said. 'May I burn in hell, if I ever open the door of that safe again'. The brilliant and scary "The Beast with Five Fingers", is the first entry in this mammoth collection of strange and chilling short stories by W. F. Harvey, an unjustly neglected author of supernatural tales. This unique volume demonstrates clearly that Harvey is one of the masters of the genre. Along with such classics as "August Heat", which concerns two strangers whose individual fates become inextricably entwined in a nightmare scenario and the gruesome school yarn, "The Dabblers", you will find such minor masterpieces of the uncanny as "The Man Who Hated Aspidistras", "Sarah Bennet's Possession", "The Habeas Corpus Club" and many more stories which refreshingly avoid the cliche while at the same time creating that wonderfully eerie sense of fear.