The action of the stories of the Dashing Ghoul takes place in St. Petersburg and Crimea, in our time and in the not so distant future. The author's traditional heroes are inhabitants of Internet chat rooms, network freaks, hiccups and otakus. They may seem strange to some, but there is still more ordinary in them than strange: they seek friendship, dream of love, encounter misunderstandings - like everyone else. And like everyone else, they suffer from abandonment in a cold and cruel world. Maybe that’s why they themselves are cruel, including to each other. The text retains the peculiarities of the author’s spelling and punctuation. The book contains obscene language.