I've never been into Folk Tales but this was really good! It was like the Russian version of Hansel and Gretel and Baba Yaga wrapped into one! It was really dark and entrancing. In a small city of Duva the people are starving to death that they'll do anything to get a meal (view spoiler)[even if it means killing their own child or eating their own brother (hide spoiler)]. Havel is a young girl living in this city with her father, brother Havel, and her mother. There's a monster lurking in the woods though that steals young girls and young Nadya lives in fear. 
 Sometimes though it isn't what is outside that is most frightening but instead what is inside your own home.