A book is devoted бытованию in the culture of three психоэмоциональных ground-states - fear, scandal and madness. Leading specialists from Russia, France, America and Israel offer to the readers to see the hidden meaning being the basis of well the acquainted works : "Inspector", "Crime and punishment", "Idiot", "Uncle Ваня", "Shallow demon", "Lolita" and many other. Figures of Golden-eye, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Набокова appear before by a reader in the new light. Fear is a strong push in development of personality of man. But he can become reason of her native change, destruction, and sometimes and deaths. Literary scandals unseal the new details of writer biographies and cultural way of life of epoch, that finds embodiment in work of literati and artists. And grant, intriguing part of book, entering in the world of literary madness, tells about a letter as pathologies. About эпигонах and imitators, about the mentally unhealthy heroes of books, delirium and hallucinations, executing, however, important artistic tasks in works.