The Riders

The day when this terrible story began was nothing special among other days. True, a nasty prickly autumn rain was falling… and where would Verka know that the strange young woman with a child, who politely offered the girl an umbrella, wasn’t a person, but… Who the new neighbors of Verka turned out to be—and what events unfolded in a dacha settlement near Moscow—you’ll learn from the fantastic tale by Kir Bulychev.