Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ―Science, Technology and Culture: Dynamics of Change in the XXI Century‖ (December 1921, 2025) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. – Baku, Azerbaijan, 2026. – 90 p.

56 що хороші історії не завжди або правдиві, але ця була достатньо правдоподібною, бо людська природа виявилась тут повною мірою‖ [9, с. 523] (it is no wonder that good stories are not always true, but this one was plausible enough, because human nature was fully revealed here) . The Gallien family was cursed by the power that lived in the younger brother, who was interested in fairy tales and literature. It turns out that the prose writer of contemporary American mass culture breaks the stereotype about truth and lies (veiled truth) in folk art (folklore), hinting that human knowledge through fairy tales has a hidden side, which readers must intuitively guess, thanks to their acquired experience, according to their age. The habit of the miraculous is present in two aspects of the novel (in Ukrainian mythology, we also encounter the mythological image of Dyv – образ Див ). S. King mentions the equivalent of another world, US Tax Day (introduced on 15 April 1955), when personal income tax is filed with the federal government, emphasising the conflict between people's personal desires and the pressure of tradition, which is also Dyv (― див”): ― люди схильні робити те, чого вимагає традиція” [9, с. 521]. S. King enriches fantasy with expressive means that create a more penetrating experience for the recipient, helping them to understand the world of the fairy tale: the fantasy unity of magic / fantasy with reality (in another world), the problem of loneliness, the loss of the value of life, anxiety (in the details of visual images of a city empty of people (grey, whole) with ghosts, abandoned streets), references to images and motifs from classical works and contemporary art (intertextuality – from Disney cartoons , Ch. M. Schulz's comics „Peanuts‟ , etc.), archetypal situations (the trials of the prophesied prince-hero to overcome evil ( visual images of darkness , Red Molly , her mother guarding the sundial, Hana's treasure trove of gold, the ‘land of giants’ [9, p. 484] Kretch, lover of Flight Killer Peter ), manifestation of willpower, endurance (sports play an important role, stimulating better brain function (accelerated blood flow – розігнана кров )), the development of logic in the