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Two guides winter alone at an Alpine inn until one vanishes into the snow and the survivor begins hearing his call.
During the Prussian occupation, an officer mistakes a grieving woman’s immobility for defiance and decides to punish her.
A coastal place-name preserves the story of an austere village priest whose hatred of desire turns violent on a storm-beaten cliff.
A family’s hatred of hunting begins with two brothers and the immense wolf that turns their winter chase into a private war.
A traveller pauses beside a dark reservoir and hears how two brothers faced a sudden, desperate accident there.
A sighted mountaineer falls into an isolated valley where blindness is universal—and learns that his advantage has no accepted meaning.
A Brazilian gunboat sent against a plague of giant ants discovers an organized enemy capable of challenging human rule of the Amazon.
A colonial patrol trapped on a cliff must escape enemy fire, thirst, and a drop that seems impossible to survive.
A chemistry accident sends an ordinary schoolmaster into a shadow world that overlaps the lives of everyone he knew.
A laboratory accident blinds Davidson to London and replaces it with a vivid view of a remote island that may be more than hallucination.
Two exhausted adventurers follow a stolen treasure map into a tropical forest, certain that murder has put a fortune within reach.
Three horsemen pursuing a fleeing woman enter a silent valley where the wind carries vast webs alive with spiders.
Escaping a wartime prison ship, a sailor wakes stranded on a newly risen ocean floor marked by signs of an ancient marine civilization.
A famous escape artist accepts a midnight invitation at Giza and wakes bound in a chamber far beneath the pyramids.
A scholar links a dead professor's papers, a global cult, and a sailor's account to the same ancient being beneath the Pacific.
After a meteor lands on a New England farm, the soil, animals, and family begin to change in ways that local science cannot explain.
A self-styled investigator of horrors climbs Tempest Mountain to uncover what has been killing whole families near an abandoned mansion.
An Irish landowner plans to drain a bog that local villagers refuse to disturb, then replaces every worker who leaves.
A scholar climbs a forbidden mountain to see the gods of Earth, certain that his learning can protect him from their anger.
A lonely man escapes the lightless castle where he has always lived and searches for other people under the full moon.
A young singer crosses many lands searching for the beautiful city he remembers, hoping to find people who understand his songs.
Randolph Carter, cut off from the dream worlds of his youth, follows an inherited silver key toward his childhood home and a possible way back.
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.
