Dragons of the Night

Sleep… Reality… In a dream or… awake.. Marusya Petrovna saw THIS sixty years ago and then remembered it for the rest of her life. Everyone to whom she tried to tell what she, an eight-year-old girl, witnessed on the night of the murder of the famous illusionist and hypnotist Simon Valenti and his assistant Asya Mordashova, who were touring their town, did not believe her. Unhealthy fantasies of a child — that’s what they said back then, the delirium of a mad old woman — that’s what they say now. It was a terrible 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 grandnephew doing here? Why has he settled in the remote provincial Dvurechensk? What is he looking for? And again, like back then, the boy Misha Utkin has gone missing, and Dasha, Marusya Petrovna's granddaughter, received a terrifying drawing predicting death…