When evil is committed, but the living are silent, the dead begin to speak - as in the beginning of “Hamlet”, when the spirit of the poisoned father appears to the prince on the fortress wall. The other world that knocks on this world, the games of ghosts - they are the voice of the guilty conscience of past generations. “Titan”, the first collection of stories by Sergei Lebedev, is 11 stories, different in time and place of action, but united by a mystical topography in which the restless past, the evil legacy of totalitarian regimes is always nearby, beyond a thin line, and tries to testify with the voices of things, places, animals and people, seeking retribution and justice. The book contains obscene language