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A planter hunts the alien beast eating his crop, only to find that each mile of the chase makes his quarry smarter and more dangerous.
During the Roman siege of Jerusalem, three temple officials pay the soldiers below for animals to use in sacrifice.
A guide takes a modern visitor through ancient Antioch, where a violent king prepares an animal costume for his latest public triumph.
Two drunken sailors enter a plague-sealed London district and interrupt a grotesque court meeting in an undertaker’s shop.
A man becomes a social celebrity by making his nose the subject of a supposedly learned science.
A man literally loses his breath and is mistaken for dead through a series of violent mishaps.
A solemn student prankster tests a famous duelist’s pride with an insult designed to turn etiquette against him.
A group of confident American scholars revives an Egyptian mummy and discovers that he has a low opinion of modern progress.
A drunk skeptic mocks reports of strange accidents, then meets the official responsible for making unlikely events happen.
A vain French duke dies over a badly served delicacy and challenges the Devil to a card game for his freedom.
A reclusive naturalist follows a cryptogram from a found parchment into the South Carolina woods in search of pirate treasure.
A curious narrator searches for the secret behind a celebrated war hero whose perfect appearance seems too complete to be natural.
A convalescent observer follows an unreadable old man through London, convinced that his need for crowds hides a life of crime.
When two women are brutally killed in a locked Paris room, Dupin tests the evidence that the police dismiss.
A curious passenger becomes obsessed with an artist's six-foot box and the strange marriage surrounding it on a voyage to New York.
A stolen royal letter remains inside a minister's home despite months of secret police searches, and Dupin asks what they failed to see.
A vain young heir falls for a woman he can barely see and rushes toward marriage before he understands who she is.
During a cholera outbreak, a nervous man sees a monstrous creature crawling down a distant hill.
A curious traveler visits a private asylum and joins an elegant dinner where every guest seems slightly out of place.
Scheherazade tells one more Sinbad voyage, but the king finds modern science and technology less believable than magic.
A town's most trusted man leads the hunt for a missing neighbor while every clue points to the victim's disgraced nephew.
A journalist reports that an obscure chemist has found a way to turn lead into pure gold.
On a train to Paris, a proudly controlling mother carries a caged bird home while unknowingly passing the wreckage of her daughter’s love.
In a snowbound military hut, a major’s seemingly casual questions expose the dangerous private anxieties beneath his authority.
