About the book: 2014 / Nominations for the awards named after. Janusz A. Seidel, named after. Jerzy Zulawski and SFinks. Dreams come true. Payment upon receipt. Do you want to become rich? Maybe you're looking for love? Or are voices in your head preventing you from living? Make a wish and see what happens. Dream come true. Payment upon completion. Everyone is overcome by desires. They dream of wealth, love, happiness. Šimek and three of his friends live in the small town of Rykusmyku. They are tormented by teenage problems and thoughts about the future. And everyone has a cherished desire, for the sake of which they are ready to do anything to fulfill. The main attraction of the city is the old castle, which is associated with a dark legend; everyone knows about it, but no one dares to speak out loud. On the last day of summer, friends pluck up courage and delve into the castle's dungeons to make their dreams come true. But everything comes at a price, and now they are bound by a secret that will change their lives. They need to find a way to free themselves from the past. Or at least be able to forget it. “Happy Land” is a journey through a reality that is both monstrous and incredibly attractive. It attracts attention, excites and makes you think about the need for love and stability, dependence on material possessions and the omnipresent emptiness. The stories of four friends bound by a secret are woven into a tale of modern thirtysomethings, their dilemmas and the shadows of the past. “This is a story about what every novel should be about: life and everything that lies beneath its surface. Here you can find mysterious meanings in ordinary things and the ordinary in the incredible.” – Szczepan Twardoch “The author’s world does not need monsters and crimes to take the reader by surprise. At the core of classic horror is a genuine empathy for the horrors and wonders of childhood. Orbitovsky gradually extracts from horror literature the naked nightmare of human existence.” – Jacek Dukaj “A superb moral tale – poignant, powerful and at times painting a painful portrait of our generation.” – Vit Shostak “A dense, powerful and painfully true story.” – Yaroslav Urbanyuk “Orbitovsky gives the amazing horror novel the form of magnificent modern prose, flavored with detective elements. He turns the story of how a group of teenagers say goodbye to their youth in the basements of the devil's castle into a parable about the torment of endless desires and the hell of wish fulfillment. There is nothing ordinary in this novel, but we see in it our world with our problems.” – Nowa Fantastyka “No one else tells us about the everyday life and horror of life as convincingly as Lukasz Orbitowski. This is the most beautiful and at the same time the most touching of his books.” – Joanna Mica-Orjondala