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A man literally loses his breath and is mistaken for dead through a series of violent mishaps.
After a storm destroys his ship, a skeptical traveler finds himself aboard an ancient vessel racing toward the South Pole.
A bored passenger on a future balloon tour writes a letter full of confident errors about the nineteenth century.
A dying skeptic submits to mesmerism and uses the trance to answer questions about God, matter, pain, and life after death.
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 solemn student prankster tests a famous duelist’s pride with an insult designed to turn etiquette against him.
Toby Dammit's habit of betting the Devil his head becomes literal when a stranger accepts the wager at a covered bridge.
Seven men shut themselves inside a plague-stricken city and hold a desperate feast beside the body of their dead friend.
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 drunk skeptic mocks reports of strange accidents, then meets the official responsible for making unlikely events happen.
After saving a child from a Venetian canal, a mysterious man keeps a final appointment with the child's married mother.
A condemned man traces his ruin through alcohol, cruelty, and two black cats that seem to expose every crime he hides.
A proud entrepreneur explains the strict method behind a career built on nuisance, provocation, fraud, and other unusual trades.
A connoisseur leads his insulter down into the family catacombs to settle a score over a rare sherry.
Two reunited lovers discuss humanity's collapse and what one of them experienced as his body died, decayed, and lost its senses.
Two souls meet after Earth’s destruction, and one explains how a newly discovered comet ended the human world.
A perfectly ordered Dutch borough measures life by clocks and cabbages until a strange fiddler crosses the surrounding hills.
An heir uses an immense fortune to create a private landscape meant to surpass nature without losing its beauty.
A vain French duke dies over a badly served delicacy and challenges the Devil to a card game for his freedom.
A mesmerist tests whether hypnosis can hold a dying man at the point between life and death.
A man answers a childhood friend’s urgent summons and enters a decaying estate where the house and its last family seem bound together.
A reclusive naturalist follows a cryptogram from a found parchment into the South Carolina woods in search of pirate treasure.
