A world in which life and civilization exist only on the coasts of Europe... A world in which the Ice Age never ended. Here, Victorian squires hunt not foxes and deer, but mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. Here, as the magazine aptly puts it “Locus”, “Dickens meets Lovecraft”. This is the world of Geoffrey Barlow’s trilogy, brilliantly begun with the novel “Sleeping in the Dark” - and continued with the novel “The House in the Deep Wood”. The seal on the ancient well of the ruined abbey is opened - and in a cozy, warm village the world has been invaded by Evil. A monstrous owl is circling over the forest... The inhabitants of the village are having nightmares... The classic “rural detective story” suddenly turns into something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Because the young landowner and his guest, investigating a mysterious suicide, do not yet fully understand WHAT THEY ARE FACING. .