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On New Year’s Eve, a young woman peers into a mirror for a glimpse of marriage and sees far more of its demands than she expected.
In a shuttered provincial house, a mother and daughter sew endlessly for a marriage that remains only a hope.
A fever overtakes a young lieutenant on the train home, distorting every sound, face, and passing hour.
A sick young man enters the Virginia mountains and returns with a precise memory of dying in another century.
Two drunken sailors enter a plague-sealed London district and interrupt a grotesque court meeting in an undertaker’s shop.
A widower obsessed with his brilliant first wife brings a second bride into an abbey shaped by grief, opium, and dread.
A man literally loses his breath and is mistaken for dead through a series of violent mishaps.
After a storm destroys his ship, a skeptical traveler finds himself aboard an ancient vessel racing toward the South Pole.
A dying skeptic submits to mesmerism and uses the trance to answer questions about God, matter, pain, and life after death.
A widower watches his daughter grow into an exact copy of the wife whose death he once desired.
Seven men shut themselves inside a plague-stricken city and hold a desperate feast beside the body of their dead friend.
After saving a child from a Venetian canal, a mysterious man keeps a final appointment with the child's married mother.
Two reunited lovers discuss humanity's collapse and what one of them experienced as his body died, decayed, and lost its senses.
A mesmerist tests whether hypnosis can hold a dying man at the point between life and death.
A man answers a childhood friend’s urgent summons and enters a decaying estate where the house and its last family seem bound together.
A solitary traveler watches a fairy circle a divided island as sunset turns the scene into a vision of aging and death.
A prince walls his court inside a castellated abbey to outparty a plague — through seven colored rooms.
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 wounded traveler finds a portrait so lifelike that he searches a book for the story of the woman it depicts.
A man with catalepsy becomes consumed by the fear that one of his trances will be mistaken for death.
After the thaw, a peasant brings his wife’s body down from the mountains—and the villagers reveal the grotesque ritual he performed while waiting.
A writer reads a magazine’s promises of Romance while, far away, a famous bullfighter dies and is reduced to souvenir pictures.
War, revolution, bullfights, and executions flash past in hard-edged scenes where courage and brutality become nearly indistinguishable.
A boy accompanies his doctor father across a dark lake to help a woman in labor, entering a night of pain, birth, and adult mystery.
