The Call of the Fox

When Agatha was six, her mother went missing while studying the legends of Tuonela – the Finno-Ugric world of the dead, and her father went insane from unsuccessful attempts to find her. The pursuit of the past leads grown-up Agatha to the search team "LizaAlert," where she gets a chance to come to terms with her experiences. But this is not easy, as in the dark forests of Karelia, Agatha is still awaited by the echo of a family secret, and the entire taiga is permeated by an invisible signal from the mysterious radio station "UVB-76" with alarming messages for the living.

1. Folk horror with a Karelian setting: impenetrable forests, shamans, Finno-Ugric mythology about the world of the dead Tuonela and the signals of "UVB-76," a classified radio station with mysterious messages for the living.
2. The novel is built on familiar phenomena: the real search team "LizaAlert," the real existing "Doomsday Radio Station" – this device ultimately blurs the boundary between legend and truth, making the former chillingly, ominously tangible. Gorshkov works in the tradition of regional horror, where the setting is a full-fledged character: the Karelian taiga remembers, preserves, and returns what people wanted to get rid of forever.
3. Valery Gorshkov – journalist and linguistic criminologist, winner of the contests "Fear over the City" and "Scream into Space," finalist of the "Masters of Horror" award, author of the novel "Pazori."