Stepan has taken another step forward. But now he has closed the portal with his body—through which Death itself tried to break through. And now he is on the other side—in a strange, unusual, unreal world. A world of the Dark Sun. A world of energies of darkness and death. A world where night rules over everything. A world from which, perhaps, monsters come—those that mothers frighten their children with. A world overflowing with infernal energy. But even in this world there is life. A life that someone unseen and powerful has specially arranged to make possible in such conditions. A world where the hero will once again have to let his Beast out. Because to get out of here, he must first survive.