Red Laugh

Leonid Andreyev (1871—1919) — a Russian writer and playwright of the Silver Age, a master of psychological prose, often addressing the dark sides of the human soul in his works. Impressed by the events of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, he wrote one of the most terrifying and allegorical stories in world literature - «Red Laugh». Fragmentary excerpts from the memories of an artillery officer who went insane, and then his brother, tormented by anxious anticipation of catastrophe, have a powerful impact on the reader even 120 years after they were written. The book also includes the stories «Silence», «Into the Dark Distance», «Once Upon a Time», «It Was Like This», «Flight», and «A Tale of Sergey Petrovich».