After the agile and resourceful Hugo manages to uncover the secret of a mysterious mechanism left behind by his dead father, he embarks on a journey that will change those around him and lead to a safe and beautiful place he will call home.

An anthology consisting of five short stories. A father sees his son looking at a magazine with horror comics. He takes the "harmful" magazine away from him, throws it in the trash, and sends the boy to bed. Suddenly, the boy sees the good-natured face of a ghost in the window, who calls him to come with him. He leads him down the street straight to the trash can, where the magazine lies....
The first story is called "Father's Day." The family sits around the dinner table waiting for Aunt Bedelia. The aunt killed her father a few years ago for having a holiday called Father's Day where he kept yelling: "Where's my birthday cake, you stupid bitch!?" while she labored in the kitchen. Bedelia couldn't take it anymore and hit her daddy over the head with a marble ashtray. Now every year on this holiday Bedelia goes to her father's grave to make amends. And then on one of these days, the pope rises from the grave with the cry, "Where's my cake!"...?".
The title of the second story is "The Lonely Death of Geordie Verill." Gas station owner Jordy Verill witnesses a meteorite crash near his home. He begins to imagine the money he could sell it for to a local college. But by carelessness he touches the meteorite, after which the very real vegetation begins to grow on his body...
The third story is called "The Tide." Richard Vickers discovers that his wife Becky has a lover named Harry. Richard goes to him and takes him to the ocean shore. There he buries both lovers in the sand so that only their heads stick out. The coming tide should bring them a slow but imminent death. But Richard could not even suspect that Becky and Harry will rise from oblivion to take revenge ...
The fourth story is entitled "The Chest". A university janitor discovers a chest hidden under the stairs. It is labeled with the Arctic expedition of 1834. The janitor tells Professor Dexter Stanley about the strange find, and they open the chest. A monster crawls out and kills the janitor. Dexter runs away from the lab in terror and meets another professor, whom the monster mistakes for a second course. Leaving the walls of the university Dexter turns to his friend Henry for help. He immediately gets an idea how to teach his wife Wilma, who constantly wipes her feet on him. He puts sleeping pills in Charlie's glass and goes to the university, leaving Wilma a note in which he asks her to follow him ...
The fifth story is titled "They Crawl All Over You." Millionaire Upson Pratt has a terrible hatred of bugs and other insects. But one day cockroaches appear in his unusually clean apartment. Upson panics and calls the epidemic control people. But the cockroaches keep coming and coming from every crevice ...

David had everything: money, his own publishing house, an expensive car and an apartment in a respectable neighborhood of New York, a writer friend and girlfriend Julianna, and even enemies in the person of seven managers of his company. So he lived without looking back, until one day he was in a car accident and woke up after a coma invalid with a disfigured face, which now has to hide. His new life turned out to be a nightmare from which he could not wake up.

1972. For 20 years the government cheese monopoly has been established in totalitarian Switzerland, and not only the insolent who dare to produce illegal dairy products, but also people with lactose intolerance are subjected to repression. The military kills first the lover, then the grandfather of Heidi, an ordinary villager, and the girl herself is sent to prison. But Heidi's spirit cannot be broken so easily - she decides to escape at all costs, to challenge the cheese dictatorship and overthrow the cult of personality of the president who has usurped power.

After taking on the image of an avatar, soldier Jake Sully becomes the leader of the Na'vi people and takes on a mission to protect his new friends from self-serving businessmen from Earth. Now he has someone to fight for - with Jake is his beautiful lover Neytiri. When the heavily armed Earthlings return to Pandora, Jake is ready to fight back.

Plumber brothers Mario and Luigi open a portal to an underground city, from which they must rescue the captive Princess Peach and fight their nemesis Bowser.

The famous swindler Arsène Lupin III dashingly pulls off a grand theft of millions of dollars, after which he learns that the booty in his hands - the most skillful forgery. It was created in the European principality of Cagliostro, the rulers of which for many centuries traded in the production of counterfeit bills. Unaccustomed to losing, Lupin heads to the castle of the Princes of Cagliostro, but the search for money is put on the back burner when he meets the charming Princess Clarisse.

Eerie legends surround the ominous mansion known as the House on the Hill. This gloomy and majestic structure, once owned by the richest textile magnate Hugh Crane, has stood empty for more than a century and is considered a cursed place. But it is it that sleep study specialist Dr. Murrow chooses for his experiments. A group of four insomniacs will have to spend several days and nights in the eerie house.

Edgin Darvis, a bard and adventurer, escapes from prison with his warrior girlfriend Holga and goes to see his daughter, who has been under the tutelage of his former accomplice Forge for the last few years. Upon arrival it turns out that the latter, with the support of a suspicious sorceress Sophina, not only got fabulously rich and became governor, but also turned his daughter against her father, and in general - not against getting rid of Edgin and Holga. Having managed to fight off the executioners, the desperate couple plans a terrible revenge, and for this they will have to unite with the absent-minded wizard Simon, the dexterous druidess Doric and find the magic helmet, which was considered lost.

17-year-old Billy Batson, who received the gift of turning into a superhero in his forties, protects the peace of the citizens of Philadelphia together with his adopted siblings, with whom he shared his superpowers. Due to their youth and lack of discipline, not everything works out perfectly for them, and the press calls the superhero team the "Philadelphia Fiascoes." Meanwhile, two women posing as the daughters of the titan Atlanta steal a magic wand broken in half from a Greek museum and head to Philadelphia to take away the superheroes' magical powers.