A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
A shaved moustache sends a society woman from bedroom complaint to a memory of recognizing French soldiers among the dead.
A respected village priest receives a ragged visitor whose face and faded photograph reopen the betrayal that drove him into the Church.
An opium dreamer explains why the imagined East offers him the peace and pleasure he cannot find in modern life.
A reluctant traveler bound for Italy meets an aloof young woman whose sudden proposal reshapes his carefully planned holiday.
An aging sportsman keeps hunting season alive through elaborate dinners, improbable anecdotes, and one coveted delicacy.
A hunter’s letter about woodcock season turns to a rural killing and the local idea of honor that judged it.
A beautiful countess rebels against the husband who has used pregnancy to control her, choosing a revenge designed to poison his certainty.
A poor scholarship student makes one accidental movement during an exam and must decide whether winning matters more than his principles.
On a carefully cultivated tour of Rome, a refined schoolteacher meets an ideal companion—until one social detail tests her affection.
A neglected shopkeeper discovers that a crystal egg offers a living view of another world—and that its inhabitants may be watching back.
A chemistry accident sends an ordinary schoolmaster into a shadow world that overlaps the lives of everyone he knew.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
A self-proclaimed 228-year-old gentleman recalls evenings with Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and their sharp-tongued London circle.
A penniless London dreamer searches night after night for Celephaïs, the timeless city he first entered in childhood.
A dying man escapes waking life's monotony through dreams of enchanted gardens and a bronze gate said to open onto a final realm.
A sculptor and a brilliant stranger use drugs to cross the boundaries of sleep until one reaches a place neither can safely revisit.
A famous escape artist accepts a midnight invitation at Giza and wakes bound in a chamber far beneath the pyramids.
A solitary count faces a family curse as his thirty-second birthday nears and hidden rooms in his ruined château reveal an old revenge.
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 man follows a family summons to a silent New England town, where a Christmas gathering leads beneath the local church.
A horror writer enters an abandoned church, studies a strange crystal, and begins to feel watched by something that cannot survive light.
A Brooklyn detective traces disappearances and occult meetings to a scholar whose sudden return to society conceals a deeper threat.
Two bored collectors steal an amulet from a centuries-old grave, then hear a hound closing in across the night.
A self-styled investigator of horrors climbs Tempest Mountain to uncover what has been killing whole families near an abandoned mansion.
