Yankylma: They Always Come Back to Us (Yankylma: The Mysticism of the Ural Villages)

Silent, remote taiga villages—ghosts that can’t be found on any map. Something that can look like a human being. Ancient menkvy and kuli that lead travelers away so that they vanish forever. This isn’t just a set of scary tales—it’s an ethno-horror infused with Ural folklore and a cold, suffocating atmosphere.

In this book, stories are gathered that pull you in from the very first pages: about settlements lost in impenetrable forests. Who lives in places that seem to be erased from the world—people, or those who only pretend to be them? Don’t menkvy and kuli hide in the deep woods, luring random travelers to a place from which there is no way back? And what could explain the astonishing longevity of the locals?

The plots are woven together subtly, echoing Ural legends. The stories have a mysterious, sometimes frightening tone, and the fates of the heroes intersect where you least expect it. Perhaps that’s exactly how threads reach out invisibly to our forgotten past.

This is not merely a collection—it’s a full-fledged ethno-horror that reveals the secrets of the Ural taiga and its ancient masters, who, under the cover of forests, seem to be calling descendants to remember them.