Classics of horror. Murders on Morgue Street. Call of Cthulhu

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first to intimidate readers. From press reports to the narrator of the Murder on Morgue Street and detective-analyst Dupen, it becomes known that the killings took place in a closed room on the fifth floor of the building. Residents of the neighborhood heard terrible screams. Madame L'Espagne's mutilated body was thrown out of the window, but before that he cut his throat with such a force with a razor that when the corpse was lifted, his head fell off. Madame's daughter was strangled and her body was buried in a chimney. What other horror does the reader need? .. Howard Lovecraft came up with Cthulhu, Dagon, Yog-Sotot, and many other dark deities who have become so popular that hundreds of science fiction writers, including Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, still continue to expand the mythology of Lovecraft's dad. Every monster in Lovecraft's world embodies one of the countless incarnations of chaos. They hide in the depths of the ocean or are in the depths of impassable forests, sleep in the Egyptian pyramids or walled up in mountain caves, or appeared on our planet from the stars or from the abyss of centuries, they are always hostile to humanity and insubordinate to reason. And the only thing left for a person is to feel and be careful