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Tales of the Uncanny
Paperback
Series: The Parapet Press Russian Library
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 14 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Newly translated and gathered together for the first time in a single volume.
Eight tales of love, fate, and the thin places between the living and the dead. A woman of mist carries a sleeping man across the night skies, asking only for his blood. A forbidden reading of Goethe wakes a passion in a married woman that cannot be put back to sleep. An officer follows a knocking no one else can hear toward the end he believes was always meant for him. A young man courts a dead actress - until she begins, gently, to court him in return.
Across these eight stories, Ivan Turgenev turns from the drawing rooms of his great novels to the country of the uncanny: dreams that repeat until they come true, a song that wakes the half-dead, an invisible dog that pads through a locked room. Here desire and dread keep the same hours, and the boundary a reasonable man trusts proves to be no boundary at all.
Quiet, exact, and steeped in dread, these tales show one of Russia's great realists at the edge of the rational - where the dead keep their appointments, and love proves stronger than the grave.
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