In this edition of the Library of Suspenseful Mysticism, you will meet the heroes of two famous thrillers by Richard Laymon and John Farris. Both authors are being published in Russian for the first time, although their works have been widely known in the West for many years and have earned their creators the reputation of recognized masters of chilling prose. In Lamon’s “The Basement,” another irresistible technique is used - the “black streak” in the lives of the heroes will seem like days of heaven to you idylls, when they enter a time of even more difficult trials, fleeing the persecution of their ex-husband - an amnestied pervert, rapist and murderer - a young woman and her daughter become victims of a much worse evil, falling into sexual slavery to bloody monsters, over whose existence they themselves are recently laughed. Introducing one of the best works of his teacher and idol John Farris - the novel When Michael Calls, Stephen King says in the preface that this book is “first of all, a surprisingly exciting plot that, from page to page, increasingly tenses your nerves and suddenly brings you to a completely unexpected ending” - And it’s hard to disagree with this: the tense thread of the investigation winds around a chain of mysterious deaths, each of which is foreshadowed by a phone call... from the other world.