Once again, the brave twelve-year-old Alice Seleznyova will have to unravel a complicated mystery. Together with her unchanging companion Pashka Geraskin, she ends up in a parallel world where a gloomy Count Dracula rules everything, terrorizing the residents of the planet with an army of frightening monsters, witches, and dragons. But at first all of this seems only to be inexplicable—and Alice has to find the answer to the question: are there ghosts or not?