Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.

Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

From startups to scaleups, online-person, and on the go.

Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.

Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.

The ancient mountains of Central Asia hold many secrets.

Some are geological wonders formed over millions of years. Others are the ruins of

civilizations long forgotten. But the darkest secrets are the ones that still hunt,

under cover of darkness. Local shepherds won't be caught in the high passes after dusk.

Experienced climbers won't venture into certain valleys, no matter how promising

the routes, and villagers in remote settlements still reinforce their doors and windows each night,

with iron bars that seem excessive to outsiders. They know what waits in the darkness. They've heard

the stories passed down through generations.

They've seen the mutilated remains of those who didn't heed the warnings.

They've heard the blood-chilling howls echoing across the valleys at night.

Not quite animal. Not quite human.

Modern science dismisses their fears as superstition.

Anthropologists cataloged their warnings as interesting cultural folklore.

Wildlife experts attribute the occasional disappearances to wolves, bears, or exposure to the harsh elements. But those who've glimpsed the

hulking silhouettes watching the distant ridge lines, who've found strange footprints

circling their camps, who've awoken to the sound of breathing just outside their tents. They know

...