Питер Тримэйн

The Monk Who Vanished

В новой антологии собраны тридцать пять классических и современных историй о вампирах, принадлежащих перу таких известных авторов, как Клайв Баркер, Роберт Блох, Нил Гейман, Танит Ли, Ким Ньюмен, Кристофер Фаулер, Брайан Ламли и других. Загадочные, жестокие, аристократичные, сексуальные, бесстрастные, как сама смерть, и способные на самую жгучую страсть, — вампиры уже не первое столетие остаются п...

The three horsemen halted their mounts on the hillside and gazed down into the river valley. Below them, an expanse of trees formed a barrier between the hills and the broad, sedately flowing river to the south. The scene was a patchwork of greens, yellows and browns depending on the varied species and condition of the arboreal canopy and its foliage. The trees were mainly broad-trunk oaks, with t...

The elderly man was obviously a religieux. He wore the corona spina, the tonsure of St Peter, and a long brown woollen homespun cloak over a robe of similar material, with leather sandals on his feet. Marking him as being above the lower orders of religious brethren, he carried a staff of office topped with a small silver hook as if it were a crozier of the type a bishop might use.