RU. Novella, 1991.

Urban fantasy, mystical thriller, horror, vampires.

The action of the novella unfolds in the world inhabited by the Ninefold-Living people and the vampires ("varks"). The principal hero is a boy who was born "a cripple" (from the point of view of people surrounding him) - he lives only once ("for the last time"), which means that he can't return to life after death. But the boy (later the young man) wants to prove both to himself and to all the people that he is normal and manly. So he becomes a warrior. Some time later he met a beauty from a famous family and fell in love with her. But soon it turned out that the girl is a vampire! She loves him sincerely and doesn't want to bite him and thus make him a vampire too, but Senior Vampires consider this to be a treason and put an invocation on her. So she cannot rise from her grave any more. Only human blood can break the invocation. And the hero comes to her grave and allows her to "kiss" his neck. And he becomes a "vark" himself.

Still something human has remained in the souls of the vampire-hero and his vampire-girl; they began to search for the special invocation ("The Word of the Last Ones") which turns a vampire back into normal man. After many morbid adventures they found the "Word of the Last Ones", but it turns out that it can be applied only to the Senior Vampires ("High Varks"). They cannot use the "Word of the Last Ones" till they become High Varks, but then they'll become completely unhuman and would never want to return into their human image!

The solving of this problem was long and hard; at the end of the novel the hero and his girl succeeded to acquire human features again; but other vampires found the opened door to Earth...

Published 16 times from 1992 to 2018 (Ukraine, Poland, Russia).