An everyday tragedy brought into stark relief and elevated to high drama by the skilled pen of Maria Krestovskaya, as she focuses her readers' attention on someone, whose life...

Alexander Belyaev's rare foray into a bit of mysticism, "The Witches' Castle" is a reminder how careful must be wandering around the woods, especially when mysterious strangers...

Some might see the lessons in Odoyevsky's short and charming life manual for children old-fashioned and outdated. Some might even bristle at certain suggestions. However, we would...

One day, a courier who deems himself quite the romantic hero, decides to follow a beautiful stranger... only to be plunged into a nightmare vortex in space and time.

In the time of paranoia and religious fanaticism, one young woman's life falls into the hands of two very misguided men.

On the heels of the worst year in his life, Carter Wolski loses his will to live. He is prodded, shoved, sniffed, and slobbered back to life by a trio of very strange helpers.

Literary critic, E. A. Koltonovskaya, described the literary style of novelist Maria Krestovskaya as follows, “Her pen, for all its feminine agility, is often remarkable for its...

A homage to "Death and the Lady" by Judith Tarr and a modern fantasy, "Whispers in the Mist" nevertheless poses a question, very much present in reality - if you could go back to...

Imagine if one man devised a way to gain control of one vital resource no one can live without. What would you do then?

A very old and insightful tale that holds up surprisingly well in the modern context.