Elfriede Jelinek loves to open wounds and publicly declare things that many would prefer to forget. So in “Bambiland” she talks about human cruelty, about vi...

Necromancers don't celebrate birthdays because they celebrate the day of death. After all, you can become a true necromancer only by dying! A look at the wor...

Mystical story. Two friends decided to put the urban legend to the test and play the popular Internet game “elevator.”

Why not look for Noah's Ark in the Putorana Mountains? Where did the US Army Mosquito plane crash with a cargo of jewelry for Beria in 1944? What prospects d...

Continuation of the fascinating adventures of the boy Petya Shishkin. Petya's summer holidays have begun. What to do? Lots of ideas: go with friends to an ab...

On Christmas evening, the whole area is noisy with joy. People congratulate each other on the holiday, children frolic cheerfully. And in all this chaos, a h...

All his life he dreamed of being on the Fiji Islands in the Pacific Ocean. He dreamed, planned, saved money, but instead he had to survive in his home countr...

The three-volume Collected Works of the English writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is the most complete published in Russian. The famous esthete and dandy of the...

Memoirs of Hero of the Soviet Union A.D. Kanevsky, who started the war as an ordinary reconnaissance officer and ended it as a reconnaissance company command...

An ancient passenger steamer with a strange name for the Yenisei “Thames” set off on its next voyage. Things went swimmingly. The crew, led by the stern Sibe...

The story, consisting of four episodes, describes the mystical influence of the past on the present. Characters of different characters find themselves in st...