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A professional burglar poses as a landscape painter, only to find that art criticism is the least predictable hazard of the job.
A confident skeptic spends the night in a notorious room, armed with candles and reason against its dark reputation.
A confident clubman claims he helped a hapless ghost vanish, then agrees to demonstrate the spirit’s strange hand gestures.
A young scholar traces his family's troubled history from a decaying English estate to a ruined city deep in the Congo.
A sculptor and a brilliant stranger use drugs to cross the boundaries of sleep until one reaches a place neither can safely revisit.
A solitary count faces a family curse as his thirty-second birthday nears and hidden rooms in his ruined château reveal an old revenge.
Two bored collectors steal an amulet from a centuries-old grave, then hear a hound closing in across the night.
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 lonely man escapes the lightless castle where he has always lived and searches for other people under the full moon.
An American heir restores his family’s ruined English priory, where only he and his cats can hear rats moving inside the walls.
A sheltered poet marries a skilled occultist and begins to fear that she can force his mind out of his own body.
A woman is surprised by her attraction to the friend her husband has invited to stay.
A young mother at a Louisiana plantation sees her husband's love vanish as rumors spread about their baby.
Pélagie saves for decades to rebuild the plantation house lost in the war, while her sister lives beside its ruins.
A traveler with a broken buggy is mistaken for a soldier who never came home for Christmas.
A Neapolitan officer's secret mission makes him a stranger to everyone he loves.
An embattled French countess seeks a dream that will decide whether she can forgive the man she loves.
An orphaned heiress's secret promise entangles her with two brothers divided by inheritance.
A despised prince secretly marries the peasant woman who restores his faith in the world.
A grieving traveler follows an unexplained beacon to an abandoned Welsh tower.
A poor steward's daughter marries the lord who saved her from a burning home.
Two young pilgrims seek shelter with a Swiss baron haunted by the daughter he drove away.
On his first week in Bertie's service, Jeeves faces a stolen manuscript, a demanding fiancée, and a check suit he cannot approve.
