About the title
Cossacks, witches, mermaids, drowned girls, and other inhabitants of Dikanka come face to face with their creator, Nikolai Gogol, a young clerk from Petersburg who suffers from mysterious seizures and is able to communicate with characters from the otherworld. Together with his superior, the brilliant metropolitan investigator Yakov Guro, the budding writer travels to the Poltava region to investigate the mysterious murders of young women. There he also meets the love of his life, destined to play a fateful role in his fate. But will the young writer have the courage to stand up to the unimaginable?