About the book: year / THE DELICIOUS DOZEN is an annual competition of scary stories, which since 2013 has been held by the Darker webzine (Eurocon award winner, the only free electronic magazine of its kind about the dark arts in all its manifestations). It was this competition that opened the “road to life” for many authors who now make up the elite of modern Russian-language horror literature. Over the years, the laureates and finalists of the “Devil’s Dozen” have now become writers who no longer need additional introduction, such as Oleg Kozhin, Alexander Matyukhin, Maxim Kabir, Alexander Podolsky, Vladislav Zhenevsky, Alexey Provotorov, Dmitry Tikhonov and many others. Over the years, dozens of stories that participated and achieved success in the competition were published in various anthologies and collections of authors. Before you is the first book in the history of the “Devil's Dozen”, composed entirely of stories that participated in one competition. There are, of course, exactly thirteen of them. The same notorious damn dozen.