Once Upon a Time

A new story from the renowned master of folk horror, Tatiana Mastryukova! Are you sure you know who lives next door? Taisia spent her entire childhood with her grandmother, so she remembered all her neighbors well. Uncle Grisha, who sneezed exactly five times; his wife Valya with her perpetual rollers; the silent Susanna, who treated everyone to pancakes; Lenin's husband, who soaked in the bathtub for hours while his wife prepared dinner; and the grandmother's nephew, rummaging through the drawers in search of loose change. But when Tasia grew up, it turned out that only she and her brother remembered these people. The others are convinced: such neighbors never existed. This could easily be attributed to a child's imagination - if it weren't for the strange box with dolls, left at her door. Dolls with faces eerily familiar...