The Scariest Book. The Expert: Bonds of Hell

Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is duty.
1965, USSR. Dmyan Klimov is an expert, the heir of an ancient craft, a former partisan and hero of the Great Patriotic War. His life is a struggle against what cannot be explained. His... craft is to patch (sometimes with his own blood) the cracks between worlds. His cross is to save those who cannot be saved.

And when children begin to disappear in Zador’e, dead bodies rise from the ground, and the chairman's wife writhes under the burden of a curse, it is Dmyan and his young apprentice Maksimka who must stand on the border between the Otherworld and the World of the Living to protect their fellow villagers from the incoming disasters. But they do not yet know that the fiercest tale awaits ahead. And no enchanted charm, Thursday salt, or incantations will help—because the bonds of Hell hold tightly, and "the destined parting promises a meeting ahead...".