The story shelf
Follow your curiosity.
A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Recurring elements in the story’s premise.
5 stories · Selected from the catalog
Anton ChekhovA jealous sexton blames his wife for every storm that sends a young traveler to their isolated hut.
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A homesick poet follows an eighteenth-century stranger through hidden New York streets to a house erased from modern maps.
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A man follows a family summons to a silent New England town, where a Christmas gathering leads beneath the local church.
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A Brooklyn detective traces disappearances and occult meetings to a scholar whose sudden return to society conceals a deeper threat.
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A sheltered poet marries a skilled occultist and begins to fear that she can force his mind out of his own body.
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