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A man defends an unforgivable marriage by tracing the grief, resemblance, and desire that brought a father to it.
A night of torch fishing on the Algerian coast leads an old school friend to disclose the jealousy that drove him from France.
At a crowded riverside resort, a young man’s absolute devotion collides with a lover whose desires he cannot control or understand.
An exile has built a fortune around one plan: return to the woman whose love ruined him.
A frugal Norman peasant picks up a scrap of string on market day and finds that a harmless act can destroy a man’s reputation.
A respected lawyer accused of violating his lover’s grave refuses counsel and asks a shocked courtroom to hear why he returned to her.
A Parisian libertine becomes consumed by a stranger whose identity remains beyond his reach.
A family’s hatred of hunting begins with two brothers and the immense wolf that turns their winter chase into a private war.
A neglected shopkeeper discovers that a crystal egg offers a living view of another world—and that its inhabitants may be watching back.
A ragged stranger claims to carry a fortune in man-made diamonds, but every proof of his success has made him look more like a criminal.
A quiet orchid collector longs for one remarkable event, then a mysterious plant from the tropics begins to bloom in his greenhouse.
After his rival dies, a celebrated entomologist discovers a moth no one else can see—and cannot stop trying to catch it.
A grieving prince builds an ever more magnificent monument to his lost queen, refining it until devotion and art become hard to separate.
Three horsemen pursuing a fleeing woman enter a silent valley where the wind carries vast webs alive with spiders.
A scientist activates a machine that reveals forms of life hidden beside us, trapping his former friend in the experiment.
A sculptor and a brilliant stranger use drugs to cross the boundaries of sleep until one reaches a place neither can safely revisit.
A scholar links a dead professor's papers, a global cult, and a sailor's account to the same ancient being beneath the Pacific.
A horror writer enters an abandoned church, studies a strange crystal, and begins to feel watched by something that cannot survive light.
Two bored collectors steal an amulet from a centuries-old grave, then hear a hound closing in across the night.
A self-styled investigator of horrors climbs Tempest Mountain to uncover what has been killing whole families near an abandoned mansion.
Caught in a storm, a genealogist takes shelter in an isolated New England farmhouse whose ancient owner studies a gruesome engraving.
A doctor and his nephew investigate a Providence house where generations of residents have weakened, gone mad, or died.
Randolph Carter recounts the night his occult-minded friend descended into a hidden crypt with only a telephone line between them.
A solitary young man becomes convinced that an abandoned family tomb contains the life and identity meant for him.
