About the book: 2017 / One day the devil appeared to an old gravedigger and suggested a way to gain immortality. But in return, every year you will have to strangle a beautiful maiden - on the night when spring says goodbye to the world and summer comes. The gravedigger agreed and became a ghoul. And half a century later, a cheerful company gathered at a dacha near Moscow - beauties, poets, cadets. Which of them will fall victim to the ancient evil??