Sprayed

"Upyr" of Alexey Tolstoy - a famous mystical tale, which has become the brightest example of Russian Gothic romanticism and has lowered the high appreciation of the Visarian Belinsky himself. Dvoryanin Runevsky on the world ball meet with the strange Mr. Rybarenko, who claims that among the guests there are invisible beings - peppers drinking the blood of living people. At first, Runevsky accepts his words for the brid of a madman, but soon they find themselves trapped into a chain of horrible, unexplicable events. After going to the ancient premises of his beloved Daša and her grandmother, Brigadier Sugrobina, the hero encounters the dark genetic forgiveness, family secrets, dreams-gallucinations and the real presence of a substrate evil. Alexey Tolstoy with virtuous skill keeps the reader in constant tension, skillfully washing the boundary between mystical horror, madness and rational reality. **About what the book in three words:** Curse, Stupid, Madness. **Who to read:** Fans of classical Gothic prose and mystical detectives, lovers of stories about rocky family secrets, as well as all lovers of the romantic literature of the 19th century.