The Scariest Book. Black Tales

Oh, these tales. Oh, these storytellers!.. In ancient times, people did not know kind tales. Tales have long been grim and frightening stories about death, violence, and dark sorcery. In them, unfortunate rulers were boiled alive, children were starved, and... orphans had their limbs cut off. Even The Little Mermaid by H. C. Andersen drank the blood of the sea witch before losing her voice and heading to the land to her beloved prince. Tales are the first horror stories... And now they return to you as they have always been and should be! The anthology Black Tales features both modern variations of famous tales about the Shahrazad, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Mermaid, as well as completely new, original, and unique stories based on folklore from different countries and peoples. The fruits of the wild imagination of authors such as Oleg Kozhin, Alexander Matyukhin, Mike Gelprin, Dmitry Tikhonov, Oksana Vetlovskaya, and many, many others have been collected into one large and very frightening collection by the renowned writer and compiler of horror anthologies M. S. Parfenov. There is no place for bright magic here, for these are tales for adults. Black, black tales…