Strange things are happening in Los Angeles. Strange and scary. There is a maniac and serial killer operating in the city, who marks his victims by stuffing black cockroaches into their mouths. Someone is tearing up graves at the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery and stealing coffins from there. A priest, searching for a missing girl from among his parishioners, discovers a house filled with wrapped in the sheets with human bodies. There is not a drop of blood in their veins, there is no pulse, but from time to time they convulse and seem to come to life. Police Captain Andy Palatazin unsuccessfully tries to find the culprit - the culprits? - all these crimes and only when he sees a picture with twitching bodies, he begins to guess what a terrible present awaits Los Angeles in the very next days. McCammon's novel “They Thirst” is included in the famous review anthology “Horror: 100 Best Books” (Horror: 100 Best Books) is one of the main ratings of world literature in the horror genre, along with works of world-famous classics such as Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Bronte, and no less famous authors of our time - John Fowles, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King .The novel is published in a new translation. The collection is supplemented by the story “Blood Will Conquer Hollywood,” translated into Russian for the first time.