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On a nighttime walk through Paris, a convivial dinner guest argues that no friendship or love can breach the solitude of the mind.
A man with no obvious catastrophe explains why thirty years of repetition and one drawer of old letters have made life unbearable.
After his parents die, a blind farmhand becomes the target of a household’s escalating cruelty in rural Normandy.
A dying woman on the sunny Riviera remembers the cold Norman marriage that made illness feel like her only path to escape.
A visitor wins the trust of a hermit whose retreat on a southern hill began with one devastating discovery in Paris.
Two guides winter alone at an Alpine inn until one vanishes into the snow and the survivor begins hearing his call.
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 stranded collector hatches an extinct giant bird on a lonely atoll and gains a companion that keeps growing.
Alone in a remote Borneo observatory, an astronomer discovers that the darkness inside the dome holds a threat far closer than the stars.
A neglected shopkeeper discovers that a crystal egg offers a living view of another world—and that its inhabitants may be watching back.
A laboratory accident blinds Davidson to London and replaces it with a vivid view of a remote island that may be more than hallucination.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
A penniless London dreamer searches night after night for Celephaïs, the timeless city he first entered in childhood.
Escaping a wartime prison ship, a sailor wakes stranded on a newly risen ocean floor marked by signs of an ancient marine civilization.
A homesick poet follows an eighteenth-century stranger through hidden New York streets to a house erased from modern maps.
A solitary count faces a family curse as his thirty-second birthday nears and hidden rooms in his ruined château reveal an old revenge.
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 impoverished student becomes obsessed with the strange nightly music of a mute viol player on a street missing from every map.
A lonely man escapes the lightless castle where he has always lived and searches for other people under the full moon.
Caught in a storm, a genealogist takes shelter in an isolated New England farmhouse whose ancient owner studies a gruesome engraving.
A young singer crosses many lands searching for the beautiful city he remembers, hoping to find people who understand his songs.
A Wall Street copyist answers every request with "I would prefer not to" — and never leaves.
A solitary bank clerk forms an unexpected friendship with a married woman and must decide how close to let her come.
