The end of the millennium was approaching and when a plague of invisible fire broke out, cutting off limbs from the body and consuming many in a single night, the sufferers thronged to the churches and invoked the help of the Saints. The cries of those in pain could be heard in villages beyond the eighth or the tenth house and quite far off in the fields; the stench of rotten flesh was unbearable. Many were tortured and twisted by a contraction of the nerves; others died miserably, their limbs eaten up by the "holy fire" and blackened like charcoal. This fire permeated the wretched people...

Richard Feynman and Richard Dawkins were in delusion about the Cargo Cult. That is the only true religion in the world. The others are not. Let's take a look at some Cargo Cults from a different angle. Also: the Great Mistery of Water, horrible true story about the Hound of the Baskervilles, the terrible truth about Avatar and the Greatest Secret of the werewolves. Twenty short stories. (written in Russian)

Witch-hunt in the Middle Ages, witch trials in the early modern period, strange agricultural methods, conducted under the leadership of Academician Lysenko, the Great Purge in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s - what do all these events have in common? When science fiction writer began to understand the reason behind the seemingly inexplicable madness, he put his life in danger.

Witch-hunt in the Middle Ages, witch trials in the early modern period, strange agricultural methods, conducted under the leadership of Academician Lysenko, the Great Terror in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s - what do all these events have in common? When science fiction writer began to understand the reason behind the seemingly inexplicable madness, he put his life in danger.