The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help ...
《果戈里·起点 》的续集。波尔瓦塔神秘的杀手接连在节日的夜晚带走少女的性命,只开在月光谷底下的血花为果戈里带来了线索,最后与邪灵的较量谁又能全身而退?化身为黑暗骑士的魔鬼到底身在何方?
1829年,尼古拉·果戈裡,年輕的第三局記錄員,他自己的詩集淺薄平庸,靠買賣焚燒自己的詩集製造銷量。
俄罗斯“果戈里”系列第三部也是最终章(前2部《果戈里·起点》《果戈里·恶灵》)。