About the book: year / The collection of stories "Transmigration of Souls" for the first time introduces the Russian reader to the work of a wonderful and extremely popular writer in his time, who managed not to get lost, which in itself quite valuable, among such famous contemporaries as John Galsworthy, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome and many others. After leaving his military career, Payne gained fame in the literary field as the author of fantasies and stories about supernatural phenomena. However, the uniqueness of the world created by Payne in his stories, a mysterious and even frightening world at times, a world in which reality is often just fantasy, wealth is poverty, life is death, and death is life, is quite obvious. This uniqueness lies in the fact that any passage from the pen of Payne is full of the funny: Payne’s work as a whole, no matter how varied and diverse the works he wrote, testifies to one thing - they were created by a master with an inexhaustible and bewitching sense of humor.