DARKER — российский литературный онлайн-журнал (вебзин) посвященный «темному» фэнтези, мистике, литературе ужасов и хоррор-культуре в целом. Создан в 2011 году на основе pdf-журнала «ТЬМА». Выходит с периодичностью раз в месяц. Публикует жанровые рецензии, статьи, обзоры, а также рассказы и повести отечественных и зарубежных авторов.В данный сборник вошли избранные рассказы зарубежных и отечественных авторов (от классиков до современных), опубликованные в онлайн-журнале «DARKER» в течение 2011–2015 года.Многие произведения публикуются на русском впервые.*Внимание! Присутствуют произведения категории 18+.Сайт онлайн-журнала: http://darkermagazine.ru/[Электронное издание, 2015]

Our narrator is hired by the New York Zoological Society to assist a professor who is in charge of their gardens and exhibits. He embarks on his search for a Great Auk, a species that was extinct for fifty or so years.

In this thoroughly entertaining story collection, the renowned Dr. Percy travels the world searching for unique animal specimens – and keeps an eye on attractive examples of the fairer sex, as well. Will his dedication to these dual quests ever pay the dividends he’s looking for? Equal parts romantic farce and fantastical science fiction, Police!!! is a rollicking read with something for everyone.

What if you were involved in the theft of one of the legendary jewels of all time – and you didn’t even know it? That’s exactly what happens to the innocent damsel at the center of Robert W. Chambers’ The Dark Star. She prays for a strong, silent savior to extract her from the mess she’s in – but will she recognize and call upon her own wit and spunk before it’s too late?

“The Green Book,” a small, unassuming diary of a young girl; an unheard of book of the Talmud known as the “Tractate Middoth”; “The King in Yellow,” a play that drives people to insanity; two mysterious grey stone plaques from the sands of Chaldea known as the “Tablets of The Gods”; “The Confessions of Constantine,” which drives its readers into a homicidal rage—these accursed books are the subject of this collection of olden tales.

Gender roles in the American Revolutionary War period were not exactly a bastion of progressiveness. However, even during a time when most women were encouraged to shrink from conflict and follow the lead of any man in the vicinity, there were a few iconoclastic females who broke this mold. The defiantly independent heroine at the center of The Hidden Children steadfastly refuses to be held down by social conventions she sees as useless.

A treasured source for Lovecraft, Howard, and others, this collection endures as a work of remarkable power. Includes all the stories from The King in Yellow—“Yellow Sign,” “Repairer of Reputations,” “Demoiselle d’Ys,” and others—plus stories from other sources, including three early sci-fi fantasies from In Search of the Unknown. 10 total.

Editor’s Note:

The King in Yellow is a peculiar collection of semi-related short stories, the most famous of which have acquired the status of minor horror classics among aficionados of the form. For that reason, Litrix has placed The King in Yellow in its horror section. The first six stories deal to a varying degree with a common thread of a mysterious evil book, one glance at which is enough to induce madness and death. The latter stories are more or less realistic romances set among young Bohemian artists in Paris’s Latin Quarter, a thread that runs through several of the horror tales as well. Despite its fame among horror buffs, the book has seldom seen print in the past few decades, and even used editions are hard to come by. We believe this to be the first time the full electronic text of The King in Yellow has appeared anywhere on the Internet, and we are proud to be able to provide it to interested readers.Robert Raven, contributing editor

The Crown Prince is partly right; the majority in the world is against him and what he stands for; but not against Germany and the Germans.