Vraždy a jiné zběsilosti – Poe Edgar Allan (2019)

The master of horror as you don't know him. A classic of the terrifying tale could not exist without contradictory influences, and so alongside his best frightful stories, such as The Amontillado Wine Cask or The Jumper, we can place nicely punchy, pointed grotesques, because humor and horror often dangerously close to each other. Where a devilish revenge is plotted, there is no lack of a satirical edge, or even a humorous flash of madness. After all, who would think to make the patients of an asylum into caregivers (The Mad Psychiatrist), turn a doubting Thomas into the hero of the most improbable bizarre situations (The Angel of Grotesqueness), or let a boastful idiot literally lose his head? In some pieces, you'll laugh so hard it will pinch your diaphragm, chill your neck, and in the end, you'll even empathize with the mad killer who decides to avenge countless wrongs in particularly despicable ways, by burying alive. The victim in the jingle bells of the Clown, the terrible Jumper, who particularly enjoys cruel humor. You ask why? After all, you are the Killer!, so why shouldn't you, dear reader, laugh along with Poem one last time? Or should they sell you along with the hero as dog food?