A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
A jealous sexton blames his wife for every storm that sends a young traveler to their isolated hut.
A fever overtakes a young lieutenant on the train home, distorting every sound, face, and passing hour.
On Christmas Eve, a nine-year-old apprentice writes home for rescue from hunger, beatings, and sleepless work in Moscow.
A boy discovers his governess’s secret romance and learns how much power a whispered threat can hold.
Prescribed total rest in a nursery with barred windows, a young wife begins to study the wallpaper.
A pilot risks a solo flight to Mars, where a hidden survivor and a silent alien intelligence reveal why Earth’s missions never came home.
Three friends invent time travel, claim prehistoric America as a nation, and discover that founding a country is harder than reaching the past.
After nearly six thousand years of immortality, a man who wants to die attempts a radical cure: rebuilding the world of his childhood.
A hunted mutant slips past Pluto’s quarantine and finds a dead scientist, a false disaster, and a doorway to a world remembered only in nightmares.
When a reclusive professor’s familiar street begins to lose blocks and buildings, an old theory about reality becomes his only explanation.
A planter hunts the alien beast eating his crop, only to find that each mile of the chase makes his quarry smarter and more dangerous.
A space Scanner temporarily regains his senses and learns that his own guild plans to kill the man who could make their sacrifice obsolete.
Telepath Underhill and his feline Partner, Lady May, must destroy an alien predator in the milliseconds between jumps through interstellar space.
A Norwegian fisherman explains how careful observation saved him when a hurricane swept his boat into the Maelström.
A sick young man enters the Virginia mountains and returns with a precise memory of dying in another century.
After promising his dying cousin that he will never love again, a grieving man leaves their hidden valley and faces a second love.
Two drunken sailors enter a plague-sealed London district and interrupt a grotesque court meeting in an undertaker’s shop.
After a storm destroys his ship, a skeptical traveler finds himself aboard an ancient vessel racing toward the South Pole.
A cruel young baron takes possession of a violent horse that may carry the spirit of his family's dead enemy.
A widower watches his daughter grow into an exact copy of the wife whose death he once desired.
A demon describes a solitary man who endures a violent, unnatural landscape until the world around him becomes completely still.
A group of confident American scholars revives an Egyptian mummy and discovers that he has a low opinion of modern progress.
A condemned man traces his ruin through alcohol, cruelty, and two black cats that seem to expose every crime he hides.
Two souls meet after Earth’s destruction, and one explains how a newly discovered comet ended the human world.
