The ugly swans (1980)

the main narrative of ugly swans the novel by sorokin the protagonist of lame fate is about a literary figure going back to his hometown and finding that it's haunted by some people who call clammy's they wear black masks and you know they sort of outcasts and they've got strange sort of mutant powers and what have you i'm going to tell you any more than that because you really should try and dig this up and get hold of it while it's available