The publication presents two author's collections of short prose by the outstanding German writer Hans Heinz Evers (1871–1943). The collection “Nightmares” is presented in Russian in full for the first time; some stories from the book “Obsessed” have been translated anew. Fellow workers called Evers the most disgusting type among their acquaintances, readers called him “the German Edgar Allan Poe,” the great Lovecraft admired his works. The work of this author, revealing the horror of human relationships, absorbed the traditions of romanticism, decadence and expressionism. The heroes of his “scary stories” find themselves in situations that require monstrous efforts of will and tension from the darkest sides of human nature.