A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
Two friends promise to send a sign after death, and a meeting on a San Francisco street tests their pact.
A mining camp hangs a murderer, but the crowd is unprepared when the body is lowered.
A widower notices that his wife's body has changed position after its long journey home.
A passenger feels an inexplicable bond with a young woman on an Atlantic crossing.
A fugitive meets a silent figure in a dark forest and follows him back toward the jail.
A shoemaker accepts a forty-mile running bet while three men follow close behind in a cart.
A physician arrives after a sudden death and finds the family's account impossible to reconcile with the room.
At a solemn funeral, the widow looks once more through the coffin glass and screams.
Three grave robbers open a coffin on a stormy night and find its occupant sitting up.
A minister meets a silent peddler on a misty bridge, then returns to learn why the man was there.
Staley Fleming sees a dog beside his bed every night, but it vanishes when he sits up.
Neighbors keeping vigil beside a dead woman in her mountain cabin witness something they cannot explain.
A corpse appears in a locked third-floor bedroom, and no one can identify it.
An exhausted traveler checks into an Atlanta hotel and wakes to find his room occupied.
Two eager parents try to trap a schoolteacher into marrying their daughter, but their sacred evidence is less reliable than they think.
A police superintendent’s idea of justice changes each time a biting dog seems to belong to someone more powerful.
A frightened schoolboy’s failed Greek exam becomes a family crisis about poverty, ambition, and punishment.
A newly married couple’s perfect evening at a country station ends when an unexpected trainload recognizes them.
An ailing bank manager meets a petitioner whose helplessness proves more exhausting than any official problem.
A practical railway guard hires a matchmaker and explains, in exact detail, the wife required for his future happiness.
A tipsy bridegroom regales a railway compartment with his philosophy of happiness while searching for the coach where his new wife waits.
An unknown name on a civil councillor’s visitor list turns a small puzzle into a consuming spiritualist obsession.
A conscientious husband hires a midwife by night, but his rigid sense of fairness turns every ordinary exchange into an ordeal.
A polite writer grants an aspiring dramatist half an hour to read her work and discovers that she has brought five acts.
