Karloff, Boris (ed) - Boris Karloff's Favorite Horror Stories / Карлофф, Борис (ред) - Любимые рассказы Бориса Карлоффа [1965, EPUB, ENG]

The Thirteenth Floor short story by Frank Gruber Child of the Winds / Дитя ветров short story by Edmond Hamilton The Cask of Amontillado / Бочонок Амонтильядо short story by Edgar Allan Poe The Opener of the Crypt short story by John Jakes The Thing That Walked on the Wind / Оседлавший Ветер short story by August Derleth The Scarlet King / Алый король short story by Evan Hunter The Graveyard Reader / Читатель могил short story by Theodore Sturgeon The Mindworm / Червь в голове short story by C. M. Kornbluth Back from the Grave short story by Robert Silverberg (as by David Challon) Man from the South / Пари short story by Roald Dahl The Opener of the Way / Открывающий пути short story by Robert Bloch The Haunter of the Dark / Скиталец тьмы novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

Brent was drawn by the strong lure of gold to that legended tableland in innermost Turkistan called the Plateau of the Winds. There was an old rumor that lodes of unparalleled richness existed on that unvisited and almost unknown plateau. Brent knew the place was supposed to lie more than a hundred miles west of the little village Yurgan, so he went to Yurgan and tried to hire camels and drivers with which to cross the desert. There he learned that it was not going to be easy to reach the plateau. One man he found, a young Turki named Dasan An, who had traveled just enough as the servant of other white men to make him contemptuous of his fellow-villagers. He affected white-man’s clothes, spoke execrable English, and talked to Brent as though they were the only two civilized people in the place. . . .