About the book: 1993 / The tragic theme of madness and suicide united in this book two disparate works, published for the first time in Russian. The famous French master of “black plots” Roland Topor in his novel “The Tenant” paints a picture of the encroaching madness as if from the inside. This picture is as mysterious as it is terrible. The novel by the American writer Frederick Brown “The Brain Man” shows an epidemic of suicides of people and animals that has engulfed a small provincial town. This madness is actually directed by a super-powerful extraterrestrial intelligence, which is hatching diabolical plans that threaten all of humanity with mortal danger.…