The ancient gods are somewhat similar to politicians. In times when everything is calm and stable, they are forgotten, it would seem, completely, and their very names are erased from memory... but as soon as the established world order is shaken, the Great Ancients are forgotten , but have not disappeared, appear again to recruit new supporters...

Lovecraftian mythology is inexhaustible, and it is not surprising that the successors of the Lovecraft tradition still turn to it. This book presents stories from the collections of Alexei Lebedev "Return to Arkham" and "Legends of Twilight"...A. Lebedev treats the work of H. P. Lovecraft with care, scrupulously following the style of the Master, but at the same time in many stories he introduces into the canon of Lovecraftian prose elements characteristic of SCIENCE fiction in its traditional sense, and this symbiosis, admittedly, looks quite fresh and original on against the backdrop of a host of opuses in which there is nothing but fairly boring “horrors” that are no longer frightening due to the hackneyed nature, but rather inducing boredom... The works from the “Legends of Arkham” series are united by a common setting. However, each story has its own mood and intonation. In the same way, each element that makes up a single mosaic is unlike the others.