Gabe Kaleg, fearing for the state of mind of his wife, who blames herself for the disappearance of their youngest child, rents a house in a quiet province, where he moves his family. The awkward and ominous mansion bears little resemblance to a quiet, cozy home - Crickley Hall is full of ghosts and mysteries. Many years ago, during the Second World War, these places were badly damaged by a terrible flood, and all the inhabitants of Crickley Hall died. Was it only the elements that took their lives? And what do the ghosts that inhabit the mysterious house want? A new novel by James Herbert, a recognized master of mysticism, a rival of Stephen King himself, a writer whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages, for the first time in Russian!