A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
On a dangerous night ride, a cavalry officer finds a missing trooper standing beside a fallen horse.
On a freezing Civil War night, soldiers borrow a blanket from an unidentified dead sergeant.
A tenant sees the former owner of his rented house in a room with no exit.
A newspaper reporter spends the night alone in a Cincinnati house that crowds believe is haunted.
A shopkeeper keeps selling goods after his funeral, and the whole village comes to see him.
A soldier survives an ambush on the frontier and returns to a fort where no one accepts his account.
A wounded lieutenant seeks his unit near Stone’s River, but the battlefield has changed around him.
A Union picket officer fears a corpse more than the enemy near his position.
An abandoned Missouri farmhouse draws crowds when the vine covering it starts to move without wind.
Separated from his wife, a man wandering a country road sees an impossible light and a familiar figure.
A Confederate sympathizer stands on a railroad bridge with a rope around his neck. Then the rope breaks.
An abandoned Vermont farmhouse draws three neighbors who want to test its haunted reputation.
A boy sets out for water on a snowy night; his footprints end halfway to the spring.
A physician tests a friend’s fear of an inherited watch and sees how serious it is.
An inventor claims that machines can think, then a visitor hears a struggle inside his workshop.
Identical twins share more than a face as one brother’s engagement turns dangerous.
A hunter dies after an attack by something his companion cannot see.
Lost in a California forest, Halpin Frayser dreams of a deadly encounter with someone he knows.
A plantation owner vanishes while walking across an open field in view of several witnesses.
An isolated house rumored to hide a fortune draws visitors after its secretive owner dies.
Two men agree to fight with knives in a house said to be haunted.
A mother is murdered, a father vanishes, and three accounts tell different parts of what happened.
A man meets a hypnotist he distrusts, then sees his fiancée arrive in town without warning.
A hunter spends the night in an abandoned gulch cabin and hears a struggle he cannot see.
