'The Helmet of Terror' is part of the international 'Myths' project, launched by the British publishing house Canongate: renowned writers from around the world, such as Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Philip Pullman, Olga Tokarczuk, Michel Faber, Natsuo Kirino, Dubravka Ugrešić, and others, have offered their modern takes on classic myths.
The victims of the new Minotaur of the 21st century are searching for Ariadne's thread, which helped Theseus find his way through the labyrinth. Drowning in a sea of ​​information, lost in the endless chaos of internet chats, they are forced to obey the Helmet of Terror (read: Minotaur), who has provided them with mysterious nicknames – and yet they try to find their way back to the real world...

Author: Victor Pelevin