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A farmer bargains with a deathbed nurse, turning his mother's final hours into a contest of rural thrift.
An Indian prince’s cremation beneath the cliffs of Étretat confronts a French resort town with an unfamiliar rite.
A general challenges a dinner party’s easy use of the word “horrible” with two memories of people stripped of humanity.
A farming couple schedule a funeral around the colza crop, but the dying old man refuses to cooperate with their practical plans.
A newspaper’s suicide statistics carry a riverside reader into a dream of a Paris institution that promises a quiet, respectable death.
A respected lawyer accused of violating his lover’s grave refuses counsel and asks a shocked courtroom to hear why he returned to her.
A traveller pauses beside a dark reservoir and hears how two brothers faced a sudden, desperate accident there.
A young man forbidden to risk his finest clothes chooses one moonlit night to wear them freely and embrace the world beyond his home.
A chemistry accident sends an ordinary schoolmaster into a shadow world that overlaps the lives of everyone he knew.
A confident clubman claims he helped a hapless ghost vanish, then agrees to demonstrate the spirit’s strange hand gestures.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
A struggling writer befriends a reclusive doctor who can survive only in a refrigerated room, then learns why the cold is essential.
A dying man escapes waking life's monotony through dreams of enchanted gardens and a bronze gate said to open onto a final realm.
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 doctor and his nephew investigate a Providence house where generations of residents have weakened, gone mad, or died.
Randolph Carter recounts the night his occult-minded friend descended into a hidden crypt with only a telephone line between them.
A solitary young man becomes convinced that an abandoned family tomb contains the life and identity meant for him.
Gabriel Conroy attends his aunts’ annual dance, where an evening of music and conversation unsettles his assumptions.
A boy waits for news of an ailing priest and struggles to understand the adults’ uneasy silences.
After hearing that her husband has died, a woman discovers an unexpected feeling while she sits alone.
After drinking an alchemist's unfinished elixir, a lovesick young man begins to outlive everyone he knows.
A prosperous man guards a grave whose story begins with a runaway schoolboy and a haunted young woman.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
