Man has always had a craving for the unknown. Perhaps it was precisely this desire to find out what was there, beyond the river, beyond the forest, beyond the sea, that called the first migrant travelers who little by little populated the expanses of the ancient Oecumene. The world turned out to be surprisingly interesting, and we still can’t figure out the complex variety of mysteries? that nature has prepared for us. This collection contains very different stories. But their authors have one thing in common - the desire to lift the veil of the unknown over the age-old mysteries of humanity, to take another small step into the mysterious world that is slowly opening up before us.