A chilling mystical thriller in the best traditions of Stephen King and Clive Barker, awarded the prestigious Bram Stoker Award! The start of the new semester was not very successful for Caleb. Difficulties in studying, depression, heavy drinking... And to top it all off, the brutal death of an unknown student in his room. Obsessed with an irresistible desire to solve this crime, Caleb begins his own investigation, which will take him much further than he could have imagined in his worst nightmares. After all, in the quaint halls of the ancient university, real Evil has awakened. And the bleeding stigmata on Caleb’s hands inexorably announce his approach. The books of the American “master of horror” Tom Piccirilli, a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, are a real discovery for the Russian reader.