About the book: 2019 / The book includes selected and long-time classic stories by Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865–1947), a master of dark fantasy, a superb stylist and one of the most notable authors of Victorian and Edwardian decadent and fantastic prose. All works included in the book of the writer, whose literary creations were admired by H. P. Lovecraft, are translated into Russian for the first time. “Collected Stories” by M. F. Shila continues, published by the Salamandra publishing house PVV in 2013, the first complete translation of the cycle of detective stories by the writer “Prince Zalessky”. The first volume of this collection was published in 2014.