The section discusses how -Russian‖ motifs are dealt with in R. Hichens‘s ghost sto-ry «The Lighted Candles (1919)» with the help of comparative analysis. Ghost stories are based on the idea of fear of -the other‖, that is why they often include various exotic material. Russian themes are comparatively rare, during the last days of the British em-pire there was a tendency to prefer national folklore and history as well as Oriental mo-tifs. Moreover, Russian themes seldom are precise from the point of view of history and ethnography, they tend to reproduce stereotypes and they are full of distortions. This is the case with «The Lighted Candles», but it can be partially explained as the author‘s strategy: the story is highly reflexive and contains elements of parody, this is a late ex-ample of the genre, and some tropes in it are exaggerated, such as a complex narrative frame, exotic themes and playing with different levels of reality and credibility.