A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How the prose reads.
Randolph Carter recounts the night his occult-minded friend descended into a hidden crypt with only a telephone line between them.
A ruthless U-boat commander loses control of his submarine and drifts toward ruins on the Atlantic floor.
A sheltered poet marries a skilled occultist and begins to fear that she can force his mind out of his own body.
Two men debate whether any horror is truly beyond description while sitting beside the grave linked to a local legend.
A lonely lighthouse keeper boards a white ship under the full moon and sails through dreamlike lands of beauty, mystery, and danger.
A captive fur trader claims he can make his skin resist an axe, then wagers his life on a test.
To settle her father's debt, El-Soo puts herself up for auction while refusing the creditor who wants to own her.
A newcomer crosses the Yukon alone in extreme cold, with a dog whose instincts tell it the journey is unsafe.
To keep a promise, a Klondike traveler carries a friend's heavy bag through storms, rapids, and a mountain pass.
A solitary bank clerk forms an unexpected friendship with a married woman and must decide how close to let her come.
Two Dublin men arrange a meeting with a servant, and one spends the evening waiting for news.
An artist wants to sketch a Cajun fisherman, but the man's daughter worries how strangers will portray him.
With her husband away at war, a lonely young wife grows close to a visiting neighbor.
A woman estranged from her son takes in a sick child after a family party.
A farmer goes to a country ball to escape indecision about marriage and meets a woman with plans of her own.
A New Orleans agent visits a Louisiana plantation and grows close to a woman already engaged to a local painter.
A shopkeeper develops feelings for a married locksmith and struggles with what her priest calls sin.
A boy shelters an injured wanderer while his Louisiana family faces losing the money for his schooling.
On Easter morning, three children take flowers from a recluse's hill, drawing him back toward the village.
A fisherman becomes fixated on a visitor he hears playing the church organ.
At a Cajun ball, a farmer watches the woman he loves draw the attention of a wealthy planter.
A new wife leaves her husband to find a life she can choose for herself.
A plantation store clerk grows attached to a young woman whose family depends on the planter's credit.
A woman who has feared crossing the bayou since childhood must help a boy hurt on her side of it.
