This is The 1994 Djinn Incident at Tarskoye, Sunzha Valley by Sascha Schmidt, a mythical creature horror story set in December 1994 during the First Chechen War. In an isolated mining settlement in the Sunzha Valley, a Russian Orthodox chaplain arrives under the cover of humanitarian aid, but his true mission is to confirm the presence of an ancient biological predator that local folklore calls a djinn. The creature feeds on blood, lures infants with cries that mimic human distress, and has emerged from the stone of a medieval tower where Soviet geologists first breached its lair in 1952. What begins as a medical investigation becomes a classified containment operation when the chaplain realizes the infestation is not limited to a single point—the substrate is in the walls, the floors, the mine shafts, and the creature is ranging beyond the tower ...