Cruel barbarians kill wild huge creatures in the world of permafrost. A young scientist from our world is transported to an unimaginable past. An unknown creature in the South American jungle establishes connections between dimensions. But this is not a novel about prehistoric times, not the story of a “misfit,” and not another “Cthulfu myth.” F.B. Long wrote a strange story about cultural codes and geological mysteries, about the history of homo sapiens and the laws of evolution. This small book clearly reveals the unique qualities of the writer, whose true discovery, hopefully, is yet to come. The first volume of the collected works of the weird-fiction classic includes the novel “The Creature from the Abyss of Time” (1970) and stories from different years, written at the intersection of horror, mysticism and science fiction. Yuri Khudnev, translation of the novel, 2016 Alisa Tsitsilina, translation of stories, 2016 Yulia Boykova, translation of the story “Humpty Dumpty fell in his sleep..... 2016