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What if a dream draws you so far from ordinary life that the impossible begins to feel close?
In Visions and Other Fantastic Tales, Ivan Turgenev gathers ghosts, dreams, and uncanny love into five haunting stories. In Phantoms, a man is drawn into nightly flights with a spirit guide. Elsewhere, hauntings and desires pull people away from familiar life toward something they cannot fully explain.
Turgenev brings a realist’s patient eye to these strange encounters. Gentry estates, birch woods, and everyday details give the uncanny a place to take hold. Love arrives with longing and fear, while simple plots leave room for mood, the pace of a sentence, and the troubling force of what remains unsaid.
What you’ll discover
- Flights beyond ordinary life Follow the man in Phantoms as a spirit guide draws him into nightly journeys.
- Love shadowed by fear Encounter desire that brings longing, unease, and a sense of fate close together.
- The uncanny made close Discover how calm, exact prose gives impossible encounters the texture of familiar life.
- Mysteries that stay open Linger with dreams and hauntings whose power lies partly in what remains unexplained.
- A quieter kind of horror Find atmosphere rather than loud scares, and feeling rather than a rush of events.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy ghost stories, moonlit gardens, dream logic and comic dinner parties will love this collection. It also suits lovers of Russian literature and short tales read in one sitting.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A moonlit garden holds a familiar voice
- Chasing a stranger leads only to silence
- A white woman lifts a dreamer into the night
- Each night's flight costs the dreamer more
- A dog under the bed defies common sense
- Two friends love one quiet girl in Ferrara
- A son sees his dream father in a cafe
- The five tales share one way of seeing
Who’s who
- The hunterThe narrator of Three Encounters, who follows a mysterious singer from Sorrento to a Russian estate and wants to learn who she is.
- LukyanitchThe tight-lipped old freed serf who guards a shuttered manor house and reluctantly answers the hunter's persistent questions.
- EllisA pale spirit who calls a dreamer to an old oak and carries him through the night, and who will not say what she is.
- Porfiry KapitonovichA bald former hussar from Kaluga who tells a drawing room how a dog nobody could see once kept him awake.
- FabiusA fair painter in sixteenth century Ferrara who loves his wife Valeria and welcomes home his old friend.
- MutiusA dark, well-traveled musician who returns from the East with strange tricks and a violin, and who never stopped loving Valeria.
- ValeriaA shy, pale young wife whose calm life is shaken by dreams she cannot explain to her husband.
- The BaronA gaunt stranger back from America who closely resembles the father the young narrator of A Dream has seen in sleep.
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Visions et autres contes fantastiques
A woman sings the same Italian song in Sorrento and on a Russian estate, and a hunter must learn why.
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A woman sings an Italian song behind a shuttered window in Sorrento. Two years later, on a Russian estate, the same voice sings the same song.
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A moonlit garden holds a familiar voice
A hunter loves the fields around the village of Glinnoe. Almost every evening he walks past a manor house on a low hill, its shutters nailed shut. The only person who lives there is Lukyanitch, a freed serf with silver hair, who says little and wishes only that his life would end.
One night the hunter stays out late. The moon is high, the garden lies silver and damp, and the air seems to be waiting for a sound. Then two windows glow in the house that should be empty. A chord rings out, a woman begins to sing, and the hunter knows the voice.
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Turgenev, Ivan. Visions and Other Fantastic Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/visions-and-other-fantastic-tales.
Turgenev, I. (2026). Visions and other fantastic tales. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/visions-and-other-fantastic-tales
Turgenev, Ivan. Visions and Other Fantastic Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/visions-and-other-fantastic-tales.
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What is Visions and Other Fantastic Tales about?
It is a collection of five stories by Ivan Turgenev in which the supernatural enters ordinary lives. A hunter hears a ghostly song, a dreamer flies with a spirit, and a landowner is haunted by a dog nobody can see.
Which stories are in Visions and Other Fantastic Tales?
The collection holds Three Encounters, Visions, The Dog, The Song of Triumphant Love and A Dream. Each stands on its own, with its own narrator, setting and mood, from Russian country estates to sixteenth century Ferrara.
Who is Ellis in Visions?
Ellis is a pale, moon-white spirit who appears to the narrator and calls him to an old oak. She carries him across Europe by night. She gives her name but never says what she is, and the narrator keeps guessing.
The author
Ivan Turgenev
1818–1883 · Russian novelist
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short-story writer and playwright. He was born in Oryol in 1818 and died near Paris in 1883. He lived in Russia, Germany and France. His books include A Nobleman’s Nest (1859), Fathers and Sons (1862) and Virgin Soil (1877).
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