The Mystery of the Old Cemetery

An ordinary Soviet woman, Valentina Petukhova, gets lost while picking mushrooms in the forest. Her search for the way back leads her to an old abandoned cemetery. On one of the graves she sees her own name. What follows are even worse misadventures. The unquiet souls of the old cemetery have found refuge in the mysterious sorcerous order of Asmodey Chernopyatnov. The sorcerer Chernopyatnov, preparing to leave this world, is looking for a successor. His choice falls on the boy Stas Nedospas…
A. Ateev was one of the first in the 1990s to try writing a “horror tale” based on native material.