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A pious aristocratic family races to secure a freethinking marquis's last rites before scandal can reach the newspapers.
A respected village priest receives a ragged visitor whose face and faded photograph reopen the betrayal that drove him into the Church.
A surgeon’s false tale about a stolen saint’s relic impresses his devout fiancée—until she visits Cologne herself.
A coastal place-name preserves the story of an austere village priest whose hatred of desire turns violent on a storm-beaten cliff.
An anticlerical village joiner wants a lucrative church contract, but the parish priest sets a spiritual price for the work.
At the Last Judgment, tyrants, saints, and ordinary souls learn that divine scrutiny exposes more than public sins.
An abused laborer in a roaring power station begins to worship the largest dynamo as a god capable of judging his brutal supervisor.
A confident clubman claims he helped a hapless ghost vanish, then agrees to demonstrate the spirit’s strange hand gestures.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
A shopkeeper develops feelings for a married locksmith and struggles with what her priest calls sin.
After a Mars-based spiritual grifter strands a group of elderly women, their leader decides they will take the promised journey anyway.
A moonlit song outside a village house becomes the first chapter in a legend about Japan’s shape-shifting badgers.
When a devil disguised as a missionary plants a mysterious crop in sixteenth-century Japan, one cattle dealer makes a wager to learn its name.
