In 1950, Vasily Yan described S. D. Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950) as a writer whose “presence” would do honor to any literature in the world... however, only now is Krzhizhanovsky’s prose, which originates from Swift, becoming the property of a wide readership and Poe, Hoffmann and Chamisso, Meyrink and Perutz, and in Russian literature - from Gogol’s “Petersburg Tales”, from V. Odoevsky and some things by Dostoevsky. This collection includes stories and short stories by Krzhizhanovsky: “Autobiography of a Corpse”, “The Return of Munchausen” , “The Wandering “Strange””, “The Letter Killers Club”, “Bookmark”, “Materials for the biography of Gorgis Katafalaki”, “Memories of the Future”, almost all published for the first time, as well as memories of the writer his wife A. Bovshek and close people who knew him.