"Korsakov Archives", part I. The year is 1880. A young man descends from a steamboat on God's forgotten wharf in the upper reaches of the Kama. He follows the trail of the missing St. Petersburg artist, and his pursuit is finally nearing completion in a town engulfed in biblical proportions by bad weather, where an obscure horror drives citizens crazy, an old church rises gloomyly on a sheer rock, and the forests hide the estate of sinister landowners. Reviews of the selection "The Scariest Book 2022":"Very good mystical story in the historical setting. Beautifully described locations, liked the manner of the story - then we show the past, the present, and as a result, the reader has the whole picture I still have a great love for stories about the "days long gone", or rather for authors who manage to carefully convey the atmosphere of the historical era in which the action of a story takes place. This author has succeeded in solid 5. The Big Ones