Oh, these fairy tales. Oh, these Storytellers!.. In ancient times, people did not know good fairy tales. Since ancient times, fairy tales have been dark and frightening stories about death, violence, and black witchcraft. In them, unlucky rulers were boiled alive, children were starved, and orphans had their limbs chopped off. And even H. C. Andersen’s Little Mermaid drank the blood of a sea witch before losing her tongue and going ashore to her beloved prince. Fairy tales are the first horror stories... And now they come back to you as they always were and should be! In the anthology " Black Tales" contains both modern variations of the famous fairy tales about the Shamakhan Queen, Little Red Riding Hood and the Mermaid, as well as completely new, original and unique stories based on the folklore of different countries and peoples. The fruits of the wild imagination of such authors as Oleg Kozhin, Alexander Matyukhin, Mike Gelprin, Dmitry Tikhonov, Oksana Vetlovskaya and many, many others were collected into one large and very scary collection by the famous writer and compiler of horror anthologies M. S. Parfenov. There is no space here light magic, because these are fairy tales for adults. Black, black fairy tales...