The Witch of Duva

The village of Duva is starving. Nadya's mother is dead, her brother has gone to fight in the King's Army, and her father has remarried a widow who makes her feel like a stranger in her own home. At the edge of the wood, girls are disappearing, and the villagers whisper that a witch is to blame.

Told in the manner of a Ravkan folk tale and reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel, this short story from Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse was first published by Tor.com in 2012 as a companion to Shadow and Bone. It was later collected in The Language of Thorns.