“Always put the blame on your favorite dog or cat, on a monkey, a parrot, or on a child, or on that servant who was recently driven away - in this way you will be justified without harming anyone, and you will save the owner or mistress from unpleasant duty of scolding you.” Jonathan Swift “As soon as the grave is filled up, acorns should be sown on top, so that later the place would not be covered with vegetation, the appearance of the forest would not be disturbed in any way, and the slightest trace of my grave would disappear from the face of the earth - as, I flatter myself hope, the very memory of my person will be erased from human memory.” From the will of D.-A.-F. de Sade dated January 30, 1806. The book includes works related to the genre of black humor. Among the authors are people whose genius is beyond doubt, but, as you know, the greater the talent, the crazier the person is... The authors of the anthology of black humor were absolutely brilliant and completely crazy: D. Swift, Marquis de Sade, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kafka, Salvador Dali and many others.