It is not recommended to read this at night …
As you know, what is written with a pen cannot be cut down with an ax. With an ax, you can only cut down an old money-giver and mercilessly bury the tablecloth … But the manuscripts are like that - they don't burn and don't cut! Although Gogol burned the second volume of Dead Souls, and Nietzsche banally ate some of his creations for dinner. But why are we? To tell you the TOP-10 of the most terrible books once written by people. And if you think that there is only "master of horrors" Stephen King, then this is not at all the case …
1. Chuck Palahniuk - "Lullaby"
… SVSM. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Every year, seven thousand infants die for no apparent reason - they just fall asleep and never wake up … Crib death syndrome?
Or - death with a "lullaby"?
To a lullaby, which is said to have been “sung in some ancient cultures to children in times of famine and drought. Or when the tribe grew so large that it could no longer feed on its land. To a lullaby that was sung to those mutilated in battle and mortally ill - to everyone who would be better off dead. Quiet. Without pain. No torment …
This is Lullaby. A cruel book by a very unconventional (but very talented) writer.
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2. Adolf Hitler - "Mein Kampf"
Adolf Hitler's book "My Struggle" ("Mein Kampf"), according to sociologists, is considered one of the most "harmful" books to read. The book contains elements of Hitler's autobiography, where one can trace the development and formation of his anti-Semitic and militaristic views. It also expresses the concept of the predominance of one race over another, in particular the Aryan over all others. So, for the Aryan, or "original" race, Hitler extolled the Germans, and considered other peoples a second class, suitable only for being slaves …
3. Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprengenr - "Hammer of the Witches"
Another terrible book is considered to be a treatise on demonology "The Hammer of the Witches" ("The Malleus Maleficarum"), written by the Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.
This book was the most popular guide in medieval Europe to the recognition and extermination of witches and sorcerers. Only when it was published, it immediately gained frenzied popularity, all representatives of the clergy and intellectuals expressed their enthusiastic comments.
4. A. K. Tolstoy - "A family of ghouls"
A. K. Tolstoy is an outstanding Russian writer, poet, one of the most famous playwrights of his time. The tragedies “Death of Ivan the Terrible”, “Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich” and “Tsar Boris” are a trilogy about three Russian tsars who had a huge impact on the history of Russia. The writer was no stranger to horror literature, it was he who first introduced the image of a vampire into Russian literature.
The story "The Ghoul's Family" is written according to the canons of a "horror novel", a film of the same name was shot based on the work, the action of which was postponed to 1990. Based on the story "The Ghoul", director E. Tatarsky made a feature film in the style of mystical romance, in which Marina Vlady and Donatas Banionis played the "main" vampires.
5. Stephen King - "Pet Sematary"
But, of course, he could not do without King in such a hit parade! One of his most "hardcore" creations.
Louis Creed had no idea how the move to a new home would turn out for him and his family. Until now, he had never heard of the Wendigo - the ominous spirit of Indian legends.
And even more so, I had no idea that there was a pet cemetery next to this house. However, very soon he had to regret his ignorance …
6. Edgar Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Edgar Poe is a classic of American literature, poet, novelist, author of such masterpieces as "The Golden Beetle" and "Murders on Morgue Street". He wrote more than 70 short stories: psychological, gothic, romantic, detective, satirical and parody.
Edgar Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Edgar Poe is a classic of American literature, poet, novelist, author of such masterpieces as "The Golden Beetle" and "Murders on Morgue Street". He wrote more than 70 short stories: psychological, gothic, romantic, detective, satirical and parody.
"The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Mask of the Red Death", "Berenice", "Man of the Crowd" - these and many other wonderful works presented in this publication fully reflect the different facets of Poe's work, the unsurpassed creator of grotesque phantasmagorias, insane nightmares, flawless and graceful logical constructions.
7. Agatha Christie - "10 Little Indians"
Ten unconnected people in a mansion on a secluded island … Who summoned them here with a mysterious invitation? Why would anyone kill them, one by one, in the most incredible ways? Why is everything that happens so closely intertwined with a funny nursery rhyme?
8. Franz Kafka - "Labyrinth"
We present to your attention collections of works by the famous genius of the 20th century Franz Kafka. The book "Labyrinth" includes the collections "Contemplation", "Hunger" and the stories "Labyrinth" and "Research of one dog" - masterpieces of the so-called series of bestiaries of Kafka. This author does not really need an extra introduction …
9. Robert Stevenson - The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson is an English writer, classic of neo-romanticism and author of adventure novels, entered the history of literature as a subtle stylist and master of psychological portraiture. "Treasure Island". "Black Arrow", "Suicide Club", "Diamond of Raji" and many, many other works that came out from the pen of Stevenson occupy a firm place among the masterpieces of world literature.
In this edition, the readers 'attention is offered to the readers' attention, widely known and significant for the work of the writer himself, stories and stories: "The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "House on the Dunes", "Cursed Janet", "Markheim", "Olalla" and "The Corpse Thief ".
10. Howard Lovecraft - Ridges of Madness
The second volume of the complete collected works of the master of horror literature - a writer who did not publish a single book during his lifetime, but became a beacon and a landmark of an entire genre, an idol of both the wide readership and refined intellectuals, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for filmmakers.
Borges himself admired his stories, in which the place of man is on the far periphery of the universal scheme of things, and the supernatural forces instill sacred terror in the souls of the unwary.