The Darkness of Forests, the Darkness of Swamps

Our ancestors, the Slavs, lived in an astonishing time when legends and reality could coexist. Beyond the end of city walls and village outskirts began a completely different world, plunged into impenetrable darkness. A world of endless forest thickets and slimy swamps shrouded in fog, inhabited by ruthless creatures for whom humans are only food and entertainment. Your guides through this world will be vampires, werewolves, swamp women, forest spirits, and even the unknown evil from the depths of centuries—an evil that you can’t find names for in human language. Slavic legends come to life again in enchanting illustrations by the wonderful horror artist Anastasia in red and in 13 new frightening stories by the horror master Maxim Kabir.