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A stubborn skeptic discovers that any command he truly wills becomes real, though precision is not among his gifts.
After his rival dies, a celebrated entomologist discovers a moth no one else can see—and cannot stop trying to catch it.
When an orphan’s kitten vanishes in Ulthar, every cat in the village leaves home for the same night.
A man follows a family summons to a silent New England town, where a Christmas gathering leads beneath the local church.
Three robbers target an isolated former sea captain whose house contains bottles that answer when he speaks.
Two men debate whether any horror is truly beyond description while sitting beside the grave linked to a local legend.
On Easter morning, three children take flowers from a recluse's hill, drawing him back toward the village.
A fisherman becomes fixated on a visitor he hears playing the church organ.
After saving for months, two twelve-year-old twins walk into town to buy their first shoes.
A teenage mail carrier stops at a dance and finds that his horse and mailbag have vanished.
A town speculates about whom an awkward young woman will marry.
At Easter, a carpenter notices a poor young woman whom the village has overlooked.
An older woman refuses to leave the house she was given when freed from slavery.
An elderly freed man keeps trying to reach the family that enslaved him decades earlier.
When her French village empties under British rule, a young hunter must decide where she belongs.
A ruined lawyer is offered cash for his inherited feud, forcing an old mountain honor code into a startling new bargain.
A celebrated safecracker tries to build an honest life under a new name, but his old skills are not finished with him.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A traveling swindler recruits a mountain hog thief, only to discover that even a comic partnership has its own ethics.
Two snowbound prospectors educate themselves with very different books, then put their new knowledge to work in a small Montana town.
Jeff Peters explains the ethics of graft after teaming up with a burglar and a ruined financier in a town with one tempting bank.
Two confidence men corner a flood-bound town, but their monopoly faces an unexpected challenge from inside the partnership.
Two bungling kidnappers discover that their captive is far more trouble than the ransom is worth.
A mountain couple arrives at a makeshift court demanding a divorce, only to discover that separation may be harder than marriage.
