Written in the "Gothic" style, the novel "Monk" is the most famous work of the famous English novelist, playwright, poet and translator Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818). The reader's attention is drawn to the descriptions of hellish temptations, and the court of the Inquisition, and transactions with the devil himself. The actions in the novel dynamically develop against the background of ancient Spanish monasteries, temples, castles, crypts and dungeons of the Inquisition. The text is given in the translation of Irina Gavrilovna Gurova. The book is decorated with drawings taken from the first illustrated edition of the novel, published in London in 1859 by the publishing house of George Purkess.