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How the story is told.
After a meteor lands on a New England farm, the soil, animals, and family begin to change in ways that local science cannot explain.
A horror writer enters an abandoned church, studies a strange crystal, and begins to feel watched by something that cannot survive light.
Two men debate whether any horror is truly beyond description while sitting beside the grave linked to a local legend.
A woman in a remote Klondike cabin waits for Dave Walsh, and a visitor's guide knows why he has not come.
An enslaved young woman refuses the marriage her mistress has chosen and falls in love with another man.
On a bitter Christmas Eve, an out-of-work watchmaker hears a violin through the wall just as he loses hope.
A reckless English volunteer joins Greek fighters and survives a battle beside their grieving young leader.
A Neapolitan officer's secret mission makes him a stranger to everyone he loves.
A grieving traveler follows an unexplained beacon to an abandoned Welsh tower.
A prosperous man guards a grave whose story begins with a runaway schoolboy and a haunted young woman.
Two young pilgrims seek shelter with a Swiss baron haunted by the daughter he drove away.
Two devoted sisters face the terrible cost of loving an outlaw.
A Swiss orphan torn between gratitude and love must reckon with a revolution gathering in her valley.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A traveling swindler recruits a mountain hog thief, only to discover that even a comic partnership has its own ethics.
A talkative sheepherder takes a job on a lonely Texas ranch where a notorious train robber may be hiding nearby.
Jeff Peters explains the ethics of graft after teaming up with a burglar and a ruined financier in a town with one tempting bank.
Two confidence men corner a flood-bound town, but their monopoly faces an unexpected challenge from inside the partnership.
Three Terran agents flee Mars with a stolen city hidden among office supplies, but one fellow passenger asks too many questions.
Years after leaving school, a former pupil remembers the aging English teacher his class turned into an object of relentless laughter.
Wounded in a cavalry clash during the Sino-Japanese War, a Chinese soldier rides alone through the Manchurian fields with death suddenly close.
At Tokyo’s dazzling Rokumeikan ball in 1886, a seventeen-year-old Japanese woman dances for the first time with a visiting French naval officer.
