About the book: year / After the triumphant capture of the serial stage " Game of Thrones,” the classic canon of dark fantasy is perceived exclusively as bloody trash with executions, perversions and eating hearts. Indeed, dark fantasy is a story with gothic and horror elements, set in a traditional fantasy setting. But on the pages of the most famous works you will hardly find demons, werewolves and other zombies. The most successful examples were obtained when the authors created depression not with an abundance of monsters and bloody details, but with general noir and decadence. The heroes operate in a slowly fading world, the end of the story is near, inevitable and, in general, deserved. The kingdom is on the verge of collapse, the people are dying out, and they will definitely lose the war that the characters are waging. As one wonderful author said (about a completely different era, though): “There is some kind of perverted joy - in spite of Fate, to die for a hopelessly lost cause.” Masters of combat fiction and the best authors of the literary seminar “Ayu-Dag” in a collection of real dark fantasy for new series of “Snowball M”».