The book by Alla Ozornina, a famous children's writer, includes two creepy stories: “Ghosts from the Past” and “The Secret of the Ancient Amulet.” In the first story, the main character is an ordinary boy Petka, overweight and with acne on his face. Every task is given to him with great difficulty, he does not have enough strength for anything. And the parents send such a lout to a village in the middle of nowhere, where even the phone doesn’t have reception! There is no connection in “Blessed,” but there are plenty of ghosts in shackles and witchers. The boy will have to figure out all this devilry and at the same time regain his vitality. In the second story, the girl Agnia was ruined by her curiosity. One night she snuck into the artist's studio and looked at his new unfinished painting. Since then, the ghost of the Mongol Khan from the painting began to come to her and demand his amulet. There are so many incomprehensible things in Agnia’s life. Long-standing problems at school, a new strange relative, and then there’s the khan with his obsessive requests! Meanwhile, terrible clouds are gathering over the city, and they are somehow connected with the girl’s problems. For middle school age.