White Magic

<p>THE THIRTEEN TALES IN THIS VOLUME - a baker's dozen of stories - were all written by Russian e��migre��s writers who fled their native country in the early twentieth century to avoid the turmoil of war and revolution. </p><p><br></p><p>And while the stories are the work of nine very different writers who all had very different experiences of exile all are united by a single theme: mystery. </p><p><br></p><p>You will also find a fair dose of magic and mysticism here of terror and the supernatural. There are Petersburg revenants grief-stricken avengers Lithuanian vampires flying skeletons murders and duels and even a ghostly Edgar Allen Poe. </p>