We present to our readers the novel “The Living Dead.” The author of the book, A. E. Zarin (1863–1929), is a prose writer and journalist, a master of the criminal novel at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. To modern readers he is better known for his historical works. But it was the crime genre that made Zarina’s name in Russian literature. The novel reflects the events of the Russian-Swedish war during the reign of Emperor Paul I.