The Tambourine of the Lower World (Russian: «Бубен Нижнего мира») is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1993.

[3] The story is an experience of creating a "mental death laser," the reading of which is supposed to be followed by the reader's self-destruction.

[4][5] At the beginning of the story, the author suggests remembering the combination "The Tambourine of the Upper World," because it is curious and will definitely be told about it, but only later.

In the story, "The Tambourine of the Underworld," he shows how a set of ideas and verbal signals can destroy human consciousness and then construct it anew, in the configuration someone wants.

[5][8] Such linguistic technologies are based on the aesthetic transfer of the intentions of the writer-projector into the sphere of the "brain structures" of the character and, consequently, the reader, which also requires adequate literary methods of decoding.