Liudmila RUBLEUSKAJA AT THE SAME TABLE SAT…

I found a translation of my first story.

Liudmila RUBLEUSKAJA

AT THE SAME TABLE SAT…

(from The Fable Tower of Ivory)

I’m a woman, that is why I’m inguisitive to mortal sin. I’m a writer, that is why I’m inguisitive twice as much, just to su­per-mortal sin.

People did the oddest things because of their ingnisitive bent — for instance, they built the Tower of Babel, travelled round the world and created Homunculas…

By the way, some words about Faustus… I open the thick ‘Necronomicon’, the book of spells borrowed from Howard. Its iron-hard black leather cover is made of some unknown skinned animal. I’ve got some spare time, just enough to forget about my children, who are going to cover the floor I’ve just mopped with lots of dirty little foot­steps.

I concentrate…I get interested in…I’ve never seen Elemental Spir­its. The Spirit of Earth is to came first. It is either a gnome or a house-spirit. I’ll be able to give olders to him in case I’m not afraid of Ele­ments. Once, wizards’pupils had to spend some days on end in dark caves during their initiation ceremonies they had to climb up inacces­sible rocks to show their ability of ruling the Spirits of Earth…

In my view, the Earth is the very sail out of which we dig pota­toes…

A’m I free from the quality all gnomes possess — greediness? If not, then I’d better not deal with them…

Have I ever been greedy? Or have I not? If I try to call to my mind same casual cases…

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Daguerreotype horror novel

Daguerreotype

horror novel

Rublieuskaja’s new novel is set in the decadent years at the end of the nineteenth century, but opens in our times. The young journalist Sierafima is setting off to inspect a flat that she wishes to rent from a young man, the biologist Haljash, with whom she is secretly in love. He is getting ready to leave for the USA, where his fiancee is waiting for him in one of the universities there. The two of them are sorting things out in the flat when Haljash discovers among his grandfather’s papers a daguerreotype and a diary that belonged to an unknown woman… Mysterious events dating back to the 1890s unfold before the reader. The owners of a photographic studio in a small provincial Belarusian town – the beautiful, independent-minded Bahuslava and her father Varaksa Nichiel – specialise in portraits of the newly deceased; they have to set off on an expedition to photograph a unique ethnographical collection on the remote, sinister estate of Zhuchavichy. The current owner of the estate, Prince Shymon Kahaniecki, is believed by the local villagers to be a werewolf. The novel encompasses elements of the Gothic, the horror story, a passionate love affair in spite of everything, and the merciless baseness of humanity. A solution to this romantic and terrifying story is found only in our day.

THE DAGUERREOTYPE

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