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...