The publication includes the stories "The Wizard Walked Through the City" and "Vitka Tikhanovskaya - the Winner of All." The title story, the author's most famous work in the genre of literary fairy tale and science fiction, was written in 1963, filmed in 1970 - the film "The Secret of the Iron Door." In the hands of the main character of the story, Tolik Ryzhikov, falls into a box with magic matches. It is worth making a wish and breaking such a match in half, and everything will instantly come true. Tolik breaks match after match...