Ольга Мерлина

To survive the divorce and betrayal of her husband, Julia moves to a suburb of Boston. ⠀ There she buys a dilapidated house with a barren land, the same as herself. ⠀ In an attempt to put in order not only her thoughts, but also the overgrown garden, the heroine stumbles upon a human skull. ⠀ Julia immediately calls the police. According to experts, the skeleton belongs to a young girl who died a violent death. ⠀ The bones are more than two hundred years old, which means that the police will not investigate the murder. Together with the remains, a ring inlaid with gems was found. ⠀ In the early Victorian period, such rings were given as a sign of affection of the heart...

Katherine Cordell is a very successful, confident and very attractive woman. ⠀ But few people guess what it costs Katherine to maintain this external calmness and self-confidence. ⠀ Two years ago, she became a victim of a maniac. ⠀ By a fluke, Catherine managed to free herself and shoot the culprit. After a while, the killings resume. ⠀ Three women are killed one after another. All of them are united by characteristic features: a dissected trachea and a removed uterus. ⠀ Someone is copying the style of a murdered criminal. ⠀ He enters houses at night and silently enters the bedrooms of women who, awakening from their sleep, find themselves in a revived nightmare...

Kujo is a huge, good-natured St. Bernard. ⠀ A few days ago, he chased a rabbit, got stuck in a hole and was bitten by a rabid bat that lived in it. ⠀ This is how Kujo got infected. ⠀ Every day his mind became more and more clouded. Until he killed his master - the owner of a car repair shop on the outskirts of the city. Donna and Vic Trenton are having a hard time. Their marriage is bursting at the seams, Vic has problems at work, and then Donna's car is constantly breaking down. ⠀ Vic is forced to go on a business trip, and Donna, taking her little son, drives the car for repairs herself. ⠀ Right...

Turning at the junction between Aylesbury and Deans Corners leads to a desert land. ⠀ There, in the upper reaches of the Miskatonic River, under the slope of the Round Mountain is Dunwich. ⠀ The oldest families arrived here from Salem in 1692. Any signage where Dunwich was tagged has been removed because he has a bad reputation. ⠀ There are legends in the city about the servants of Satan, witch blood, strange forest dwellers, and also that nightjars are guides to the world of the dead. ⠀ The inhabitants of the provincial corner followed the path of regression, as a result of blood ties, they formed their own race...

October is about to come - the most mystical month for me. ⠀ The month when you want to: watch the leaves turn yellow and fall; try all the chemical sweets that are sold in local shops; revisit your favorite retro horror films voiced by the voices of the "pirate" VHS era; and read. ⠀ Read a lot. Horror and mysticism, thrillers and detective stories. It is for these sensations that I go to the thematic horror collections. ⠀ Visions of the Night is my perfect compilation on the eve of Halloween. I'm not sure if I can recommend all the stories, but I think everyone can find something to their taste in it...

I don’t remember the last time something shocked me. And it's not only about the horrifying things described by the author, but also about the realization that Burgess's future is very similar to our present and we may well repeat this unenviable plot. ⠀ The cynicism, selfishness and soullessness of the characters amazed me more and more with each chapter. This book should be read by everyone to think for a second where we are heading. The world of the future suffers from overpopulation. ⠀ Plants and animals are infected with an unknown infection. There is practically no natural food left, everything has been replaced by synthetic food, but its reserves are rapidly decreasing...

Honestly, I didn't expect to like it that much. ⠀ After Holly, Black wanted something magical. And so it was found. In the center of the plot is a high school student Grace. Her mother Laura disappeared from the plane in the sky. She did not fall out, did not die, but evaporated in the literal sense of the word, leaving all her things where she sat. Social services send Grace to Norway to visit her aunt, whom the girl has never heard of. ⠀ Grace did not know her relatives at all. She saw her grandmother only once, shortly before the disappearance of her mother, and then in a coffin at a funeral...