Abstract: This article is dedicated to structural-semantic analysis of the emotional concept of “fear”. Emotional concept is a complex structural cognitive-mental formation that reflects mental experiences of a person; usually verbalizes, cultural and ethnically substantiated. Fear is a negative basic emotion initiating unpleasant feelings that emerge assessing the situation dangerous or harmful, or in mobilization of all resources for confronting the threatening circumstances. The goal of this work consists in identification of structural-semantic peculiarities of the emotional concept of fear in the text of a military novel by the means of analysis of its semantic, imagery and value components. The military novel “Cursed and Killed” by the Siberian writer V. B. Astafyev served as the foundation for this study. Research results consist in determination of the individual-authorial attributes of semantic component of the concept of “fear; analysis of the original conceptual metaphors and metonymies comprising the content of imagery component of the concept of “fear”; description of most typical associative-imagery metaphors and active metonymic models; revelation of the content of value component. Special attention is given to linguocognitive interpretation of the emotional concept of “fear” as a mental multidimensional formation serving as the means for perception of war.