The Taxidermist

An executioner during the time of the French Republic meets an embodiment of Death. A German U-boat sets out for the meeting with the incomprehensible. Newborn babies foretell to people the coming end of the world, and the art of taxidermy leads to the most unexpected results.

Here, you shouldn’t reveal certain culinary secrets; under Christmas, the strangest encounters happen; and the desire to build a better and fairer world turns into a nightmare in reality.

What seems natural and safe can unexpectedly shock. People are faced with a monstrous choice, and sometimes even time itself rises up against those who decided to play with it.

These are Yaroslav Hžendowicz’s worlds, the creator of “The Lord of the Ice Garden,” and in them, anything is possible.

Contents of the collection:

• Hobby of Aunt Constance

• The Clockmaker and the Butterfly Hunter

• The Prize

• The Snowstorm sweeps from the other side

• Necessary Defense

• The Kiss of Louizetta

• Delicacies of Eastern Cuisine

• Farewell Blues

• A Celebration in Venice

• The Taxidermist

• Weekends in Ossekose

• The Third Nicholas

• Wolf’s Blizzard

• Afterword