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Thursday, December 29, 2022

The greatest horror story of all time - " Lazarus " by Leonid Andreyev ?

The much-anthologized tale “Lazarus”, by Russian writer Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919), explores the possible aftermath of this famous Biblical event - and is one of the most profoundly chilling works of fiction I’ve ever read. As a work of desolate existential horror it would seem to be without peer, a work that plays on man’s worst fears of his own mortality and what awaits on the other side, “the void”, “the horror of the infinite”, which this tale hints at with alarming power.

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