A Little House in the Village

Who doesn’t dream of inheriting from distant relatives you’ve never even heard of? That’s exactly what happened to Maksim: he inherited a house in the Russian outback from a grandmother whose existence he didn’t know about. He takes up the inheritance and decides to spend the summer in the village. There he meets Kirill—a teenager who arrived here with his mother and sister a month earlier. Kirill complains that his mother has gone mad here, and that his sister has acquired an imaginary friend—the description of whom makes your blood run cold. But later, the girl of terrifying appearance starts being seen not only by Kirill—Maksim sees her too. Then an elderly couple dies in the house where Kirill’s sister saw her that day—Valyusha: strange, horrifying, lifeless…
The only person who can tell the secret the villagers are hiding is an old woman living in a half-ruined house. But Kirill calls her a witch. And what else could you call her if she truly looks like a real witch? Permission has been received from Shedevrum to use the illustration.