Nothing remains buried at the pole forever. In the frozen deserts of Antarctica, a research team finds frozen remains of an alien race in a mountain cave. Jimmy Hayes had a bad feeling the moment he arrived at the station "Kharkiv", and his hunch was confirmed when mummies were found in the mountains. They are dead, but not enough. At the bottom of the subglacial lake under the ice cap discovered a prehistoric city built in ancient times And what has been waiting there for hundreds of millions of years has awakened. When the ruins of pre-human civilization are discovered, real trouble begins at the station "Kharkiv" ... These two events became a catalyst for an ancient conspiracy, the culmination of which will be the extinction of the human race. Evil has been waiting forever.... But it is no longer waiting for .... Tim Carran presents an amazing continuation of the book G. F. Lovecraft's "The Ridges of Madness" .