About the book: year / "Darkness" is by no means my first story. And not the second, and not the third... and not even the tenth. Frankly speaking, I cannot remember the exact number of his predecessors, but the number 30 persistently asks me to remember. So, I’ll stop there. And, nevertheless, I consider “Darkness” to be my first story. The reason is banal - all my past “works” (quotes are more than appropriate here) were written by me back in school age.