Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of Teffi’s finest and most profound, displaying her acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Spanning nearly forty years, from stories Teffi wrote in Moscow to those from her perspective as an émigré in Paris, Other Worlds gathers those stories that share the theme of religious experience, both Russian Orthodox Christianity and Russian folk belief, with its often poetic understanding of spiritual matters. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in legends, superstitions, and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the Russian provinces.