The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Leonid Andreyev: Eight Short Stories, One Novella and One Novel of the Strange and Unusual Including 'On the Day of the Crucifixion', 'The Coffin Merchant', 'Silence', 'When the King Loses His Head', 'The Wa

Volume two by a master of the strange who was known as, 'The Russian Edgar Allen Poe'.

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev's writings would influence the works of both Robert E. Howard and H.P Lovecraft. Born in 1871 in Oryol, Russia, Andreyev is considered to be the father of Russian literary expressionism. He was a prodigious author for both novels and short stories and also a highly regarded playwright. Among his twenty- five dramatic works, 'He Who Gets Slapped' (1915) is considered to be his m...