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The work of Lucian of Samosata (an ancient Greek writer who lived (about 120 - after 180 AD)) "True Story", describing, in particular, a trip to the Moon and Venus, had a significant impact on the formation of such a literary genre as science fiction. Usually this work is referred to as "the first known text that can be called science fiction," but it is not really such, because it was written in response to the work of Antonius Diogenes, whose protagonist also reached the Moon.

One of the most famous stories of Gogol, which tells about the adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, for the sake of love, who risked contacting the devil, and, oddly enough, did not lose in this difficult duel

Having bought a luxurious castle in Styria (Austria), a visiting family of Englishmen intended to lead a quiet, secluded life. But the fulfillment of their wishes is prevented by a meeting with the mysterious Countess Karnstein, a young beauty, after the appearance of which the daughter of the owner of the castle is overtaken by an unknown illness.

An old and good Dutch watch... What could be better when you inherit such a thing after the death of your great-aunt? Yes, only your blood brother gets shares of large companies and a decent amount of money under the same will. But the brothers turn out to be honest and reasonable and go to study together at the best university in Holland. And only then it becomes clear to them that the deceased grandmother knew the value of things ...

The strange and mysterious story of the mysterious Henry Jekyll inspires an unaccountable horror with its inexplicability. How can a decent, well-respected man, with an even, calm character, be connected with this vicious man, Edward Hyde, who commits brutal acts? Why are there such strange conditions in the doctor's will? Where does this Hyde live and where does it constantly disappear without a trace? The tangled incidents in which these two faces are fatally intertwined end tragically… And only the diary of the deceased, replete with terrible details, clarifies the picture of what happened.

The book describes the journey of the inventor of the time machine into the future. The plot is based on the fascinating adventures of the main character in a world 800 thousand years away, describing which the author proceeded from the negative trends in the development of modern capitalist society, which allowed many critics to call the book a warning novel. In addition, the novel describes for the first time a lot of ideas related to time travel, which will not lose their attractiveness for readers and authors of new works for a long time.

Bram Stoker's novel is a well-known classic of the vampire genre, and his Count Dracula is a truly immortal being who has survived many film adaptations and has become the embodiment of all the most insidious and mysterious that human imagination is capable of. You will hear five voices telling about their nightmarish encounters with Dracula. The girl Lucy, who received a fatal bite and gradually becomes a vampire, her lover, restless with despair, a courageous doctor who recognizes ominous symptoms… Excerpts from their diaries and letters step by step will bring you closer to solving the sinister mystery.

Losers are not only among people. Ghosts also happen to get into an awkward situation. But the experience of a ghost is not worth adopting while you are alive...

The strange death of Sir Charles Baskerville, the owner of a large fortune, scares his neighbors and friends, because everyone knows that according to family legend, his family is haunted by a terrible curse: a demon appears from the depths of the swamps in the form of a terrible dog to avenge the Baskervilles for the ancient crime of a dissolute ancestor. Inhuman footprints were found near his body. Had the curse found another victim?

The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his constant companion Dr. Watson must answer this question. That's just whether they are able to cope with supernatural forces, or under their mask hides an evil and merciless human will?

Who in their right mind would dare to take a night walk during Walpurgisnacht, when the "great sabbath" takes place on the Brocken Mountain in the Harz, when witches try to prevent the arrival of spring and send spoilage to people and cattle? Well, the count is ready to present a very valuable gift to such a daredevil...

The book demonstrates to the modern reader various effects on film photography that our great-grandfathers could and did in the XIX century. From the book, you can learn a lot of interesting photomontage techniques used in the era before the advent of digital image processing methods. The methods of image manipulation described in the book are available even to amateur photographers and are easily applied at home.

As a reporter for the famous newspaper "New York Times", William Seabrook went to Haiti. As a result of his expedition, he published the book "Island of Magic", which quickly gained worldwide popularity. In this book, the author tells about his life on the island in the house of the famous sorceress mambo Maman Seli. Because of this neighborhood, he witnessed many Voodoo rituals, including those dedicated to turning a person into a zombie. Right before his eyes, the deceased person was revived, and then sent to a sugar cane plantation, where he worked all day, without requiring food, money, or basic living conditions.

Antarctic expedition found in ice a strange discovery: the body of evil creatures, frozen in the ice. After scientists thawed the creature, it came alive. It would seem that the creature managed to kill him, but it soon becomes clear that it could take the form of a man... Who will survive in Antarctic station: the people or the creature?

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The book tells about numerous UFO sightings by pilots of the US Air Force. Despite its journalistic orientation, the book is written in a dramatic, narrative style reminiscent of spy thrillers. Probably, it was this kind of presentation that became the basis for conspiracy theories and concealment. On the pages of the book, the author states that aliens visited Earth for two centuries, and the frequency of these visits increased dramatically after the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945. He also assumes that the US Air Force has alien technologies at its disposal and is introducing them into its latest developments.

Frank Scully published only one book on the subject of UFOs, but it became a bestseller that influenced the development of ideas about flying saucers. It was in this book that Scully was the first to suggest that the wreckage of the UFO that crashed in New Mexico was studied by the government, after which the US military began to use engineering solutions of aliens. In this article we will talk about the content of the book and try to assess its significance, highlighting those ideas of the author that not only became the foundation for the formation of ideas about UFOs, but still have an impact on them.

This book was written by naval pilot and famous UFO researcher Donald E. Keyhoe in 1953 and formed the basis for the script of the film "Earth vs. Flying Saucers", released in 1956.

This story began on August 13 1953 in a small California town of Santa Mira. On doctor miles Bennell came Becky Driscoll in a strange mental disorder. She claimed that her uncle Ira isn't her uncle, but some kind of impostor, although he looks and speaks exactly like uncle Ira. And soon a strange craze began to spread and to infect other residents of the town.

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In the vicinity of the radiation laboratory began to appear more and more sliders. Local residents believe that the punishment of the Lord. Slides are dying under the wheels of cars, sometimes they kill people, but not everyone is able to raise his hand to slide, and for good reason...

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The novel is set in a small British village called Midwich. It was an ordinary village, some hundreds and thousands, there over the centuries there was nothing, but one day everything changed after one autumn day in a strange way fell out of the life of Midwich (all were in the village and its vicinity this day, just woke up)...

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Juan Posadas (Spanish: Juan Posadas) is an Argentine Trotskyist who laid the foundations of a peculiar trend called Posadism. Since 1968, Posadas has also become known for his theory concerning UFOs. He believed that the existence of UFOs confirms the existence of socialism on other planets, that only a socialist society is able to create the technologies necessary for interplanetary travel. In addition, he claimed that the inhabitants of UFOs can help in the implementation of the socialist revolution on Earth.

The book is a collection of stories about brownies, bathhouses– owins - stories of eyewitnesses of meetings with representatives of "evil spirits" living next to a person. The collection is the second edition of the books from the series "Mysterious Russia".

These events may already be familiar to You the story of John Campbell's "Who goes there?" or the movie John carpenter's "the thing": the confrontation of American explorers and a mysterious alien creature, able to disguise himself as any living creature. But in this story the narration goes on behalf of the... Something – by extraterrestrial beings, leafless hundreds of worlds and crashed on Earth. Beings consisting of many cells, United by one soul; a creature who is completely alien to the laws of our world...

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