«The Queen of Spades (Moonlit Tales of the Macabre - Small Bites Book 1)» by Alexander Pushkin

"The Queen of Spades" is decidedly one of Pushkin's gloomier tales, which inspired several movie adaptations and a magnificent opera by Tchaikovsky. Its determined but misguided protagonist stakes his life on a very old secret that might or might not even exist - with dire consequences.