An ordinary house on Halloween becomes a conduit for something primordial and creepy; next to another, a strange tower suddenly appears, inside of which a real monster lives; a son arrives in his recently deceased father's hometown and finds out that everything here is connected with the legend of an ancient titan named Corpsy, devouring the bodies of the living and the souls of the dead; an old The babysitter suggests that the boy she is looking after should play a game and find a mysterious creature living in the mirror, capable of fulfilling any desires. All this and much more awaits you in the worlds of John Langan, where a variety of monsters live: vampires, banshees, carnivorous giants, manticores and even Godzilla. And they all turn out to be much scarier and more mysterious than in the legends. — For all fans of the horror genre. For the first time in Russian. A novelty in the "Masters of Horror" series.— Bram Stoker Award winner and one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Award, John Langan is one of the most popular and interesting modern masters of the genre, the author of the novels "The Fisherman" and "House of Windows".— Under the cover of the collection "Dead Man" you will find fascinating, sinister, creepy, but at the same time lyrical stories by John Langan.