: Seven friends come into confrontation with an otherworldly creature that feeds on children's fears, but they fail to destroy it. Having matured, friends again encounter the creature and destroy it. Part one. Shadow of the Past. Summer of 1958. The small town of Derry in Maine terrorizes the mysterious ...

: A high school student in love with a neighbor who escaped from a house is looking for a girl in the footsteps that she left. Having found her, the guy finds out that the neighbor did not want to be found. The narrative in the first two parts of the novel comes from the face of high school student Quentin Jacobsen. The last part is written from the third ...

: Under mysterious circumstances, an elderly professor dies collecting information about the cruel cult of Cthulhu. His nephew continues the investigation and finds out that the monster actually exists. Horror in clay In the winter of 1926, the narrator’s cousin died. Professor George Angel, Specialist ...

: The hero dies before the hero on Christmas day, a boy collecting butterflies. After the funeral, in the village, in a heated room, a huge Indian butterfly hatches from a cocoon that was in the boy’s collection. At Sleptsov, in a Petersburg house, a son died, a boy who was fond of collecting butterflies. Father ...

The automated house “Everything for happiness”, owned by the spouses George and Lilia Headley, thanks to the built-in mechanisms, does absolutely all the work for people. In addition, the house has a children's room (veld). Created with the latest technology, it is able to recreate ...

It rains constantly on Venus, and the sun appears every seven years only for two hours. Thousands of days filled with rain, all made up of rain; a rumble and a fraction of rainfall, crystal waterfalls of a hail, violent hurricanes, like tsunamis that flood the islands. None of the colonists, except the girl Margot, ...

Amateur hunter Eckels buys a time travel in the Mesozoic era. The damn adventure a real hunter could ever dream of. Traveling sixty million years ago and the greatest booty of all time. Hunter Travis reports severe restrictions. To kill ...

: About an unusual period in the life of a young artist, who happened to work as a teacher in the correspondence school of painting and discern a true talent in one of his students. 1939 year. The narration is on behalf of a nineteen-year-old boy. His real name is not mentioned. After mother’s death ...

: A Jewish young man from a wealthy family, after going through trials, wants to free his people from the Romans. He meets the Messiah and becomes a Christian. Part One The Egyptian Balthasar, the Hindu Melchior and the Athenian Gaspar meet in the Arabian desert. Each of them goes to Jerusalem to become a witness ...

: A story of friendship and betrayal that forever changed the lives of two Afghan boys. Many years after the civil war, one of them returns to his homeland to correct childhood mistakes and atone for a friend who was once devoted to them. The narrative is based on the memories of an Afghan Amir ...

The old farmer, Moses Ebrams, was looking for cows that had gone somewhere, when he found a strange creature in the bushes. It was brilliant, green, with purple spots and stank throughout the neighborhood. And it was moaning softly - "just like the wind howled sadly under the wide eaves of the house." The creature suffered, and Moses, so that ...

: Investigation into the murder of an employee of the Louvre reveals many secrets related to Mary Magdalene. Late in the Louvre, the curator Jacques Sauniere is murdered, whose body is disfigured by strange signs. The police believe that the victim killed himself so. His killer, Silas, is calling a certain ...

Part one. Twenty-eight years, two months, twenty-six days. On May 4, 1950, in Pittsburgh, a man abducts seven-year-old Elina from the schoolyard. This is her father, Leo Ross, after a divorce from his wife, deprived of the right to meet with his daughter. Leo loves his daughter and hates his ex-wife, the beautiful Ardis. ...

: The mother of a prominent physicist, far from cosmic problems, suggests a solution to a difficult situation with an expedition of astronauts. Mrs. Cremona, a middle-aged woman with a gentle smile and a clear meek look, came to the huge government building to her son Gerald, a prominent physicist. He was very busy talking ...

“If you measure a person’s ability to prove himself, then there was something truly magnificent in Gatsby, some kind of heightened sensitivity to all the promises of life ... It was a rare gift of hope, a romantic fuse that I have never seen in anyone else.” Nick Carraway belongs to the venerable prosperous ...

The narrator, a young man from the old Montresor family, meekly suffers thousands of grievances from Fortunato, but when he insults, the narrator decides to take revenge. I had to not only punish, but punish with impunity. Resentment is not avenged if the avenger overtakes retribution. She is not avenged ...

The 13-year-old boy Kish lives with the mother Aikiga on the Polar Sea. Kish has no brothers and sisters, and his father Bok died in a fight with a polar bear, which he entered, saving people from starvation. Over time, people forgot about the feat of a brave man, as well as about a mother with a boy living ...

On an autumn evening, the narrator rests with his friend Auguste Dupin and recalls his investigations into “Murders on Morgue Street” and “The Secrets of Maria Roger”. Suddenly, their old acquaintance, the prefect of the Paris police, comes to them.The law enforcer wants to consult with Dupin on a matter of national importance, ...

From childhood, the narrator is distinguished by meekness of temper and love for animals. Having married early, the narrator gladly discovers similar features in his wife, and especially love for animals. At home they live birds, goldfish, a thoroughbred dog, rabbits, a monkey and a cat. Beautiful, all ...

The narrator suffers inquisitorial torture in prison. The last words he hears are the words of the death sentence. Sentenced to faint. Opening his eyes, he discovers that he is in complete darkness. Fearing that he was walled up alive, he jumps to his feet and goes forward. Realizing that he was ...