Dragons of the Night

Dream… Reality… Was it in a dream… or in reality.. Marusya Petrovna saw THIS sixty years ago and remembered it for the rest of her life. Everyone she tried to tell about what she had witnessed as an eight-year-old girl on the night of the murder of the famous illusionist, hypnotist Simon Valenti and his assistant Asya Mordashova, who were touring in their city, did not believe her. Unhealthy fantasies of a child – that’s what they said back then, the rantings of a mad old woman – that’s what they say now. It was a horrifying story. And a few months before this double murder, the children of Mordashova, a boy and a girl, went missing. And now, after so many years, the nightmare seems to be returning. What is Simon Valenti's distant nephew doing here? Why is he settling in the remote provincial Dvurechensk? What is he looking for? And again, just like back then, the boy Misha Utkin has disappeared, and Dasha, Marusya Petrovna's granddaughter, received a terrifying drawing foretelling death…