“The Cold of Fear” is a free improvisation of domestic publishers, collected from two original Western anthologies - “I Shudder at Your Touch” and “Shudder Again”, compiled by Michel Slang. The stories included in the collection represent all current trends in “horror literature” - from the classical form to exquisite “vampire decadence” and black humor. A novella by Stephen King, never before published in Russia, a stylish and cruel work by Valerie Martin, psychological “suspense” by Stephen Donaldson, ironic “horror” by Mervyn Peake and many, many others - these works are very different, but they have one thing in common - they are all included in the golden fund of the “black genre”...