In the second volume of the collected works of John Wyndham, the reader will find the novels “The Dolls” and “The Kraken Awakens.” The first of them depicts a world in which nuclear war has long died down. Humanity survived only on a few patches of radiation-free land. Religious fanaticism and hatred of everything that deviates from the Norm flourish. But even in a society squeezed by rigid boundaries, the sprouts of something new are breaking through... In the second novel - “The Kraken Awakens” - mysterious aliens, for whom the depths of the earth’s seas are their home, declare war on humanity - a war of destruction, because the two races have too little in common to reach an agreement.