Fatal'naya impressiya - zhanr literaturnogo tvorchestva, pozvolyayushchiy za korotkoe, po obshcheprinyatym normam, literaturnoe proizvedenie, bud'-to rasskaz, nebol'shaya povest', esse ili novella, proizvesti na chitatelya opredelennoe vpechatlenie ot prochitannogo. Eto svyazanno v osnovnom s fatal'nymi sobytiyami, proiskhodyashchikh putem sluchaynykh misticheskikh sovpadeniy, neobychnykh, s tochki zreniya obyvatelya situatsiy, nelogichnykh moral'no-eticheskikh sovpadeniy, zakonomernykh sluchaynostey, privodyashchikh k gibeli individuuma ili gruppy lits, zavyazannykh v odin irrotsional'no psikhologicheskiy blok, na fone polozhitel'no vliyayushchey na mirooshchushchenie lyudey religioznoy sostavlyayu