"Terrible" bestsellers: to read to someone who loves to tickle nerves

The original collection of books and individual works of the best masters of the genre "horror" will capture your mind with unpredictable scenes, frightening characters and dark fantasies. Intended for all those who love to tickle your nerves and then be afraid to turn around and look in the mirror once again.

"Necronomicon", H. P. Lovecraft

Lovecraftian horror isolated in a special artistic sub-genre that emphasizes the uniqueness and originality of art "black maestro." His works - the sinister phantasmagoria, flavored esoteric knowledge tangled worlds, myth, occult practices and prepodnesonnaya sauce archaic vocabulary.

Fear - the most ancient and powerful of the human senses, and the oldest and the greatest fear - fear of the unknown.

H. P. Lovecraft

Lyrics Lovecraft disturb and inspire unconscious fear. As if you are in a dream or paralysis suddenly transported from the familiar civilization into a dark, gloomy forest with many rustlings, indistinct sounds and touch someone's sticky feet.

Collection of stories "Necronomicon" is named after the fictional writer of the book, which many connoisseurs of HP Lovecraft and magic are still trying to look for in real life, examining thousands of libraries around the world.

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"Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe

Mystic, creator completely different in style but equally irrational and abnormally macabre works of Edgar Allan Poe left behind rich literary heritage, but fans of the genre "horror" especially like to recommend the story "The Black Cat" in the translation of Victor Hinkisa.

The disinterested and selfless love of the beast is something endearing heart of anyone who more than once had the opportunity to taste the treacherous friendship and misleading devotion peculiar to man.

"Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe

The narrative is literally soaked with blood, a succession of tragedies and terrible final chord. The story frightened by the fact that at the heart of the story are very real fate of many good people, has changed beyond recognition and turned into the devil's messengers under the influence of alcohol. As we know, life is often worse than the most morbid fantasies.

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"Dark Carnival", Ray Bradbury

This debut collection of short stories later world-famous writer. We know him as the author of unsurpassed science fiction and fantasy. But "Dark Carnival" introduces us to a unique and unpredictable literary creator dark matter. Bradbury was fond of saying that often starts to write a story, then to guess it final.

In many ways, I was naive almost to folly, but one thing I knew well. I knew my own nightmares and fears, the fear of being ...

Ray Bradbury

Originality of style and natural talent helped to create not just a tragic and thrilling narrative. It is particularly worth mentioning is absolutely unexpected ending each included in a storybook.

Imagine that you are sitting in a rocking chair and relaxed look out the window on a beautiful summer landscape... How about unexpectedly Glass hits severed head with horrible bulging eyes and continues to hang in front of you while you grab her mouth in surprise air. Reading the "Dark Carnival", you will experience the whole range of emotions - from fear of painful to hysterical laughter.

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"Apt Pupil," Stephen King

Tale scares realistic description of the gradual withdrawal of psychological teenager seriously interested in the theme of concentration camps, torture and experiments on people. The protagonist elicits terrible, sometimes unbearably painful information from the old man, which discovers Nazi war criminal.

He felt like the sorcerer's apprentice, though he has brought to life the dark forces, but was not sure that he could tame them.

"Apt Pupil," Stephen King

In the story, there is no ghost in the darkened savannah, otherworldly entities and skeletons rattling bones. Just a fact of life and nothing else. King is so expertly prescribed every single detail of the characters of the main characters and their environment, that reading the story, you become silent eyewitness place before your eyes the terrible events.

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"Terror," Dan Simmons

Simmons novel based on the true story of the Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin, sent in search of the Northwest Passage. In the historical realism of the author cleverly intersperses gems mysticism. Nevertheless, the novel scared by the fact that the reader together with the teams in ice vmorzshih ship enters the endlessly white unknown and fatal to the life of the Arctic.

Life is given only once, and she was unhappy, miserable, disgusting, brutal and short.

"Terror," Dan Simmons

Year after year you live there, where there are no laws of civilization, where hunger and despair people are starting to prey on each other, where freezed limb amputation is conducted at -45 ° C without anesthetics where brutal to scurvy, hopelessness and death.

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We wish you a good reading and the nightmarish reality! We will be glad to know what works in the genre of "horror" you have recently read.