Purple shadow. A selection of Ukrainian mystical prose

A fairy tale intertwined with reality, a belief lost in history, magic hidden in a story. Our classics created texts that make you fall in love with the atmosphere of the Ukrainian mystical night. Here in the darkness lurks an evil spirit of every kind and beauty, it invites you to turn another page of the legend of Ukrainians.
While the devil convinces the witch to get married, while the grandfather tells about old walks, and the dead mother cradles her living baby, the spindle of history spins and weaves new plots. The selection includes texts of short prose by Ukrainian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among them are Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, Natalia Kobrynska, Bohdan Lepky, Svyatoslav Olshenko-Vilkha, Anna Barvinok and others.