The crime scene in the forest near Pskov looked as if someone, having gutted two pensioners, either trampled on the corpses with boots for a long time, or rolled with his whole body... At the funeral service, the grandson of one of the murdered people faints and almost becomes sexually active victim of a crowd of dead women mutilated by fire. Since then, the vision has not receded, and the dead appear in reality. “Asafoetida” is a novel about witchcraft, Russian folk cults and the evil history of the ancient city, the reader will have a look into the protected corners of which together with the Bolshevik necromancer Sergei Malinovsky and the mysterious “elders” who exchanged God’s mortal gift for long cursed years. 2nd ed.