Six terrifying tales: in cold Petrograd, a revolutionary meets the daughter of a rat-catcher and engages in a battle with demonic rats; a nobleman encounters vurdalaks; a journalist in search of the truth travels from a dystopian Moscow to a mysterious hinterland; a boy gets stuck in cyberspace, having fallen for the promises of a treacherous miner; a gallant prince and his retinue escort a captured witch through a cursed tunnel; a village gravedigger opens a business in Moscow.