A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
An American heir restores his family’s ruined English priory, where only he and his cats can hear rats moving inside the walls.
A doctor and his nephew investigate a Providence house where generations of residents have weakened, gone mad, or died.
Randolph Carter, cut off from the dream worlds of his youth, follows an inherited silver key toward his childhood home and a possible way back.
A solitary young man becomes convinced that an abandoned family tomb contains the life and identity meant for him.
A lonely lighthouse keeper boards a white ship under the full moon and sails through dreamlike lands of beauty, mystery, and danger.
A Wall Street copyist answers every request with "I would prefer not to" — and never leaves.
A woman in a remote Klondike cabin waits for Dave Walsh, and a visitor's guide knows why he has not come.
Two Klondike partners buy a handsome sled dog who refuses to pull and keeps finding them whenever they leave him behind.
After a drunken fall, a salesman’s friends try to guide him back toward the church.
On the anniversary of Parnell’s death, campaign workers shelter from the rain and argue over Irish politics.
Gabriel Conroy attends his aunts’ annual dance, where an evening of music and conversation unsettles his assumptions.
A New Orleans agent visits a Louisiana plantation and grows close to a woman already engaged to a local painter.
A new wife leaves her husband to find a life she can choose for herself.
Pélagie saves for decades to rebuild the plantation house lost in the war, while her sister lives beside its ruins.
A solitary narrator turns from people to the quiet of a summer night.
After drinking an alchemist's unfinished elixir, a lovesick young man begins to outlive everyone he knows.
A prosperous man guards a grave whose story begins with a runaway schoolboy and a haunted young woman.
A traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
A shopgirl living on six dollars a week faces the glittering promise of dinner and the danger hidden behind it.
A young man searching for a vanished singer rents a decaying room whose lingering traces seem to answer his longing.
Two young working women pursue very different futures in a city where wages, style, and marriage all promise escape.
An aging prospector on a remote asteroid gives his work robot a personality and gains the companion he never expected.
Years after leaving school, a former pupil remembers the aging English teacher his class turned into an object of relentless laughter.
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.
