One of the program texts of Victorian England! The novel, first published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula and H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, is finally being published in Russian! A wave of inexplicable and ominous events has swept London. Theft of documents, disappearances of people and brutal murders... What explains the series of disasters - the actions of a lone psycho, spy games... or a diabolical prophecy uttered thousands of years ago? Four heroes - people of different social classes - must help Scotland Yard save Britain and the rest of the world from an ancient nightmare.