About the book: 2019 / A new mayor is sent to the city, and soon the measured life of the local residents turns into a real nightmare. Genuine darkness penetrates the office everyday life of ordinary clerks, a damned factory begins to produce monsters, and gods come to Earth - only the people who called them have no idea what they are dealing with and what kind of metamorphosis they are about to see. Ancient forces and the madness of cosmic horror, people facing the true darkness of the universe, and the abyss that looks at everyone who reads these texts - all this is "The Noctuary" and "The Theater of the Grotesque", two books by Thomas Ligotti, one of the most unusual and original writers of those currently working in the horror genre.