Darya Bobyleva

ABOUT VURKI - THE VILLAGE

"Darya Bobyleva has the talent of a sorceress in literature - she enters the dark memo- ry of the most ordinary apartments, she senses troubles in familiar relationships, she knows the terrible secrets of average big-city families. The novel „Vyurki“ is the culmi- nation of her mystical forays into the wrong side of everyday life."
VALERIA PUSTOVAYA

"Haze and horror completely unpredictable: the most important virtue of a modern author (tricking the reader by the nose so that no one knows what will happen on the next few pages), she masters brilliantly."
DMITRI BAVILSKI

"And after ten and after fifty years „Vyurki“ will look as fresh and at the same time monumental as now."
DARKER MAGAZINE

"The horror here does not lie in the appearance of creepy creatures, nor in the fact that an extreme situation brings out in man all his worst tendencies. The horror is that our zone of control and our scope of action is negligible compared to the territory we do not control."
DRUZHBA NARODOV

"Darya Bobyleva immediately evokes a feeling of sweet and sleepy childish terror, which at the same time is overshadowed by an increased concrete belief in one‘s own safety and inaccessibility to the forces of evil."
MEDUZA (GALINA YUZEFOVICH)

"Slavic mythology is indeed an uncultivated field (and just so vast that it can be tilled for a very long time) on which to create Russian horror, and that‘s what (this book) does in a great, fitting and flashy way."
YANA LETT

ABOUT NASH DVOR - THE COURTYARD

"A real “Russian horror book”: joyless, full of despair and tenderness ... The novel is a whole, but it consists of many parts, and each part, each individual element, can be viewed for a long time and reread several times. Images from different times that twist and enchant in a kaleidoscope of events... There are no limits to despair and death... Impossible to tear yourself away from the book."
DARK

"OUR YARD is about not turning a blind eye to some things or it will only make things worse for everyone - both those who turn a blind eye and those who happen to stand by."
FANTLAB.RU

"The stories of Darya Bobyleva immediately bring back memories of that sweet, sleepy childish horror when a first shadow fell on the then rock-solid belief in one‘s own pro- tection, in being shielded from the power of evil."
MEDUZA (Galina Yuzefovich)