Three stories and a cycle of sonnets by the master of literary horror - an author who did not publish a single book during his lifetime, but became a beacon and guide for an entire genre. Borges himself admired his stories, in which the place of man is on the distant periphery of the universal scheme of things, and supermundane forces instill sacred horror in the souls of the unwary...

The universe invented by Howard Lovecraft has not only gained numerous fans, but also became the basis for a whole direction in the literature of the horror genre. Lovecraft's friend and student, August Derleth, even founded a publishing house that published stories set in the world of Cthulhu. Neil Gaiman, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Marshall Smith and many others have created stories set in the small town of Innsmouth, which has long been notorious... For the first time in Russian!

Innsmouth, little a fishing town near Arkham, has had a bad reputation for many years. There are creepy stories in the area about its sullen and ugly inhabitants, from whom it is better to stay away. There is little that connects the city with the outside world: only one dilapidated bus with a disgusting driver goes there, and woe to anyone who decides to get on it.