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How the prose reads.
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 man follows a family summons to a silent New England town, where a Christmas gathering leads beneath the local church.
A horror writer enters an abandoned church, studies a strange crystal, and begins to feel watched by something that cannot survive light.
A Brooklyn detective traces disappearances and occult meetings to a scholar whose sudden return to society conceals a deeper threat.
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.
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.
An American heir restores his family’s ruined English priory, where only he and his cats can hear rats moving inside the walls.
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.
Randolph Carter recounts the night his occult-minded friend descended into a hidden crypt with only a telephone line between them.
A sheltered poet marries a skilled occultist and begins to fear that she can force his mind out of his own body.
A solitary young man becomes convinced that an abandoned family tomb contains the life and identity meant for him.
Two men debate whether any horror is truly beyond description while sitting beside the grave linked to a local legend.
A young emissary enters hostile Florence with a plea that could alter a kingdom's fate.
A reckless English volunteer joins Greek fighters and survives a battle beside their grieving young leader.
A Neapolitan officer's secret mission makes him a stranger to everyone he loves.
A banished young Sienese entrusts his sister to the rival who toppled their family.
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 feared Albanian bandit carries a child across the mountains, leaving a family to chase a terrifying rumor.
A king's cruel rhyme inspires his sister to prove a missing lady's fidelity.
A despised prince secretly marries the peasant woman who restores his faith in the world.
