"Horrors in the West" - this book about how fear experienced by an individual - on the guillotine, at the time of castration on Bartholomew's night, a look at the gallows, into a bottomless abyss, from which fetid smoke rises, on a corpse hung upside down... - penetrates into public consciousness and becomes a collective feeling. Despite the "yellow title," the book contains scientific information, being an artistic processing of a dissertation on the topic of fear in Western European society of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.