Winner of the XI annual literary contest “New Book” in 2020, in the category “Mysticism. Horror. Suspense,” 2nd place. Kamyshovka is an empty village in Siberian backwoods. They say its residents didn’t move away in search of a better life—they simply vanished. An unseen evil that settled in those lands devoured the unfortunate year after year, and now it needs new victims. But who would go to such a doomed place of their own free will? And yet they do go. There is bait: many know that in those wilds, hidden in ancient times, lies Khan Kuchum’s treasure—untold wealth. Only nobody knows that you can’t just take the treasure; it has a keeper—the very one who invited the dark forces to guard Kuchum’s hoard.