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How the prose reads.
Two homesick Breton soldiers share every Sunday—until a cowgirl’s kindness divides them.
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 racing tide traps an insurance inspector and an English family on a wreck, creating a New Year he never forgets.
A traveller pauses beside a dark reservoir and hears how two brothers faced a sudden, desperate accident there.
A solitary collector watches every object in his beloved house walk away into the night—and no explanation can make the sight less real.
A stranger on a train recounts a second life in a future world, where love and private happiness stand against an approaching global war.
A young man forbidden to risk his finest clothes chooses one moonlit night to wear them freely and embrace the world beyond his home.
A successful politician confides that a green door has offered him glimpses of a lost garden of perfect happiness throughout his life.
A grieving prince builds an ever more magnificent monument to his lost queen, refining it until devotion and art become hard to separate.
A penniless London dreamer searches night after night for Celephaïs, the timeless city he first entered in childhood.
A dying man escapes waking life's monotony through dreams of enchanted gardens and a bronze gate said to open onto a final realm.
A traveling showman arrives with electrical marvels and visions that draw a restless city toward a night of collective terror.
A sleepless man dreams of an ancient polar city where his sharp eyes earn him a military watch on which an entire people depends.
A scholar climbs a forbidden mountain to see the gods of Earth, certain that his learning can protect him from their anger.
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.
A lonely lighthouse keeper boards a white ship under the full moon and sails through dreamlike lands of beauty, mystery, and danger.
A boy promises to bring a gift from a bazaar to the girl he adores, and waits for his chance to go.
Gabriel Conroy attends his aunts’ annual dance, where an evening of music and conversation unsettles his assumptions.
With her husband away at war, a lonely young wife grows close to a visiting neighbor.
After hearing that her husband has died, a woman discovers an unexpected feeling while she sits alone.
A solitary narrator turns from people to the quiet of a summer night.
A struggling typist finds spring, memory, and a lost love hiding among the daily dishes on a restaurant menu.
In a future that has abolished fear, graveyards, and the literature of horror, the last man from the dead rises to make the world afraid again.
