The fantastic stories of St. Petersburg journalist and famous online writer Pavel Vinogradov invite the reader into bizarre worlds created by the author's imagination, where mysticism is intertwined with very real problems. A man struggles in a vicious circle of repeating life... An ever-living demon becomes a holy elder... The angel of death dreams of becoming a man and his dream comes true... The leader of the proletariat rises from his sarcophagus and tries again to make a revolution in alliance with strange creatures... At the end of the USSR, a Komsomol worker meets on a secluded river guarding a curse of a kind... Interplanetary terrorism becomes the number one problem for an empire in a distant galaxy... An elevator in love seeks reciprocity from a beauty... The true story of fifteen people on a dead man's chest... All this and much more in the collection “Strange Creatures”. All stories took high places in online literary competitions.