About the book: 2013 / The skeleton seemed to wake up, move and glow from the inside. Then he rose to his feet and began to walk from the window to the door and back. From time to time he let out an inhuman roar and wrung his hands in despair. Ann's left leg cramped, and she tried to change her position. The tree beneath her creaked. And then one of the beams that John had cut bent and split. With a scream, the girl fell down. For a moment she lay on the floor, petrified with horror. The skeleton moved towards her. Flickering green lights burned in his deep eye sockets. Bony hands grabbed her. Ann felt as if she were being squeezed by huge steel pincers. The girl screamed in horror. She tried to escape from the terrible embrace, but he held her tightly. And then Ann heard a chilling laugh. It seemed like he was coming from the depths of the grave…