Ash to ash, story to story—the story about how every wronged child hides a monster. That Santa Claus is not who he seems to be. About bloody games of survival and a demonic movie theater. About horrors lurking in the metro, beneath the ground, under the thick layer of water, in the walls of old houses, in Russian folk tales, Japanese folklore, on the steppes of Kazakhstan, in South America, on the high Tibetan plateau—and somewhere far, far beyond the borders of our world… Ash to ash, story to story—terrifying, strange, astonishing, fantastic. Welcome to the “Columbarium” by Alexander Podolsky.