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An orphan crosses the country and comes back to the town where his mother is buried.
On a dangerous night ride, a cavalry officer finds a missing trooper standing beside a fallen horse.
Two friends promise to send a sign after death, and a meeting on a San Francisco street tests their pact.
On a freezing Civil War night, soldiers borrow a blanket from an unidentified dead sergeant.
A mining camp hangs a murderer, but the crowd is unprepared when the body is lowered.
A tenant sees the former owner of his rented house in a room with no exit.
A newspaper reporter spends the night alone in a Cincinnati house that crowds believe is haunted.
A shopkeeper keeps selling goods after his funeral, and the whole village comes to see him.
A widower notices that his wife's body has changed position after its long journey home.
A soldier survives an ambush on the frontier and returns to a fort where no one accepts his account.
A passenger feels an inexplicable bond with a young woman on an Atlantic crossing.
A wounded lieutenant seeks his unit near Stone’s River, but the battlefield has changed around him.
A Union picket officer fears a corpse more than the enemy near his position.
An abandoned Missouri farmhouse draws crowds when the vine covering it starts to move without wind.
Separated from his wife, a man wandering a country road sees an impossible light and a familiar figure.
A fugitive meets a silent figure in a dark forest and follows him back toward the jail.
A man wanders a desolate plain looking for the city of Carcosa and finds signs he cannot explain.
A Confederate sympathizer stands on a railroad bridge with a rope around his neck. Then the rope breaks.
A shoemaker accepts a forty-mile running bet while three men follow close behind in a cart.
An abandoned Vermont farmhouse draws three neighbors who want to test its haunted reputation.
A man hears a familiar tapping in a room where no one else can be.
A boy sets out for water on a snowy night; his footprints end halfway to the spring.
A physician arrives after a sudden death and finds the family's account impossible to reconcile with the room.
A shepherd meets a radiant stranger who vanishes whenever he questions her.
