About the book: 2014 / October 16, 1966 on a university campus in the Midwest, a wandering “guru” who allegedly visited Tibet and gained ancient wisdom there, Spencer Mallon and his young followers performed the forbidden ritual. What actually happened there will forever remain a mystery. The result is a torn body in a local meadow and broken souls of participants and witnesses. Forty years later, the popular writer Lee Garwell decided to play out an incident that actually happened in a new novel. He strives to find out the truth about the events of that horrific night. To do this, Garwell will have to force the participants in the ominous ritual to reconstruct in all details those disgusting events, the memory of which haunts them to this day. Dark Matter is an energetic, spine-chilling novel with an unpredictable plot that once again proves that Peter Straub is a master of modern horror. For the first time in Russian!