The new anthology is a truly stunning collection of works of the detective genre, the main characters of which were some of the greatest literary detectives ever faced with the supernatural in their practical experience. William Hope Hodgson's Thomas Carnacki, Wade Wellman's John Tunstone Manly, Basil Copper's Solar Pons all stand up to the forces of Darkness; they all invade the forbidden areas of the human psyche, explore paranormal phenomena, try to comprehend the nature of Evil in order to free the world from everything that is terrifying. The real masterpiece of the anthology was the story of Kim Newman, written specifically for this publication and for the first time published in Russian.