Secret Chura

«These are stories about strange creatures and spirits of my area, the place where I grew up — a werecat that turns into a woman, a vampire who became a coach in a Soviet gym for teenagers, but most importantly... — about the mysterious river that everyone has forgotten and lives, not sensing the country beneath them. The action always begins, ends, or entirely takes place in the area that, at the end of the fifties, became a Moscow microdistrict, bounded by Lomonosov Prospect, Panfyorov Street, Lenin Prospect, and Vavilov Street, where the underground river Chura originates. I grew up in this area, it really exists, although it doesn’t completely match the one in the text, but full matches can be much more terrifying than the scariest of creatures you will soon encounter.
The book tells about vampires, werewolves, zombies, aliens, ancient powerful spirits, and modern writers, policemen, drug addicts, and high school teachers, as well as other intelligent characters such as a sexually obsessed fox, a sniper-aesthete killing Moscow residents, and the mysterious "black shashlik vendor". In fact, the book is not about that, but about something completely different!»