The dragon laughs well because the dragon laughs last. The great magician saves a student in trouble, because he has no right to do otherwise. The Black Widow's fosterling takes revenge on the village that sheltered him. Elena the Beautiful remembers all her men. Humanity is doomed to sin on a schedule. The old carousel spins, carrying its rider into fierce battles; the fast train sets off - “The Last Judgment No. 20”; in one city there were too many vampires... The book was composed of new stories by G.L. Oldie - funny, scary, unexpected. Also offered to readers is artistic journalism dedicated to the pressing problems of modern fiction, and “Imune Value” - poems by Oleg Ladyzhensky.