The Winged Sphinx and the Sad Cerberus

Escaping her husband’s wealth with her son Kiryu­sha, Natalya decided to buy an old mansion in the Moscow region. She loved the quiet place where it stood so much that even the bad reputation didn’t alarm her—people said that several murders had happened in the house, and that a ghost lived there too. The very first day after moving in, Kiryu­sha told his mother that he saw a strange boy in a red shirt with white hair and blue-blue eyes. Of course, Natalya decided the child had just invented a nonexistent friend. But very soon she discovered in an old wardrobe a secret passage that her new acquaintance supposedly told her son about. Could all the rumors about the house be true? And then Kirill disappeared! According to the neighbor, he was taken by the boy in the red shirt…