"Terrible" bestsellers: what to read for someone who likes to tickle the nerves

An original selection of books and selected works of the best masters of the horror genre will capture your mind with unpredictable plots, frightening characters and dark fantasies. Designed for everyone who likes to tickle their nerves, and then be afraid to turn around and look in the mirror once again.

The Necronomicon by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Lovecraft's horrors are singled out in a special artistic subgenre, which emphasizes the uniqueness and originality of the work of the "black master". His works are an ominous phantasmagoria, seasoned with esoteric knowledge of confused worlds, myths, occult practices and presented under the sauce of archaic vocabulary.

Fear is the oldest and most powerful of human feelings, and the oldest and most powerful fear is the fear of the unknown.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Lovecraft's texts are disturbing and instill an unconscious fear. As if you are in sleep paralysis or are suddenly transported from a familiar civilization into a dark, hopeless forest with many rustles, vague sounds and the touch of someone's sticky paws.

The collection of novellas and short stories "The Necronomicon" is named after a book fictional by the writer, which many lovers of Lovecraft and magic are still trying to find in real life, researching thousands of libraries around the world.

Black Cat by Edgar Poe

The mystic, the creator of completely different in style, but equally irrational and abnormally creepy works, Edgar Allan Poe left behind a rich literary heritage, but fans of the horror genre would especially like to advise the story "Black Cat" translated by Viktor Hinkis.

In the disinterested and selfless love of the beast there is something that conquers the heart of everyone who has more than once had the opportunity to experience the treacherous friendship and deceitful devotion inherent in Man.

"Black Cat" Edgar Poe

The narrative is literally saturated with blood, a series of tragedies and eerie final chords. The story is also frightening by the fact that the plot is based on the very real fates of many good people who have changed beyond recognition and turned into devilish messengers under the influence of alcohol. As you know, life is often worse than the most painful fantasies.

Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury

This is the debut collection of short stories by the later world famous writer. We know him as the consummate author of science fiction and fantasy. But "Dark Carnival" introduces us to the unique and unpredictable creator of dark literary matter. Bradbury liked to repeat that he often begins to write a story in order to guess its ending later.

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

Ray Bradbury

The originality of the style and the innate talent allowed for the creation of more than just tragic and exciting narratives. Here I would especially like to note the absolutely unexpected ending of each story included in the collection.

Imagine that you are sitting in a rocking chair and relaxed looking out the window at a beautiful summer landscape … How, quite unexpectedly, a severed head with terrible bulging eyes hits the glass and continues to hang in front of you while you gasp for air in surprise. Reading "Dark Carnival", you will experience the whole gamut of emotions - from painful fear to hysterical laughter.

The Able Disciple by Stephen King

The story scares the realistic description of the gradual psychological breakdown of a teenager who is seriously interested in the topic of concentration camps, torture and experiments on people. The main character elicits terrible, sometimes unbearably painful information from an old man, in whom he recognizes a Nazi criminal.

He felt like an apprentice of a sorcerer, he seemed to have summoned the dark forces to life, but he was not sure that he would be able to tame them.

"Able Student" Stephen King

In the story, there are no ghosts in darkened shrouds, otherworldly entities and skeletons, rattling bones. Only the truth of life and nothing else. King so skillfully prescribed every detail of the characters of the main characters and their surroundings that, reading the story, you become a silent eyewitness of the terrible events taking place in front of your eyes.

Terror by Dan Simmons

Simmons' novel is based on the true story of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. The author skilfully injects the gems of mysticism into historical realism. Nevertheless, the novel is already frightening by the fact that the reader, together with the crews of ships frozen into the ice, finds himself in the endlessly white, unexplored and destructive world of the Arctic.

Life is given only once, and it is unhappy, wretched, disgusting, cruel and short.

Terror by Dan Simmons

Year after year, you live where the laws of civilization do not apply, where people start hunting each other out of hunger and despair, where frostbite limbs are amputated at -45 ° C without painkillers, where scurvy, hopelessness and death are atrocious.

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