A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
The narrator’s attitude toward the story.
An ironmaster invites his wife’s lover on a midnight tour of the furnaces, where every display of heat carries a threat.
A successful politician confides that a green door has offered him glimpses of a lost garden of perfect happiness throughout his life.
A confident skeptic spends the night in a notorious room, armed with candles and reason against its dark reputation.
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 London psychical researcher leaves his body during an experiment—and returns to find it occupied by something else.
A poor medical student accepts an old philosopher’s inheritance offer and wakes to find that far more than a name has changed hands.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
A young asylum doctor tests a homemade telepathic device on a violent sleepwalker whose dreams describe worlds far beyond Earth.
A struggling writer befriends a reclusive doctor who can survive only in a refrigerated room, then learns why the cold is essential.
Escaping a wartime prison ship, a sailor wakes stranded on a newly risen ocean floor marked by signs of an ancient marine civilization.
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 scientist activates a machine that reveals forms of life hidden beside us, trapping his former friend in the experiment.
A homesick poet follows an eighteenth-century stranger through hidden New York streets to a house erased from modern maps.
A sculptor and a brilliant stranger use drugs to cross the boundaries of sleep until one reaches a place neither can safely revisit.
A traveling showman arrives with electrical marvels and visions that draw a restless city toward a night of collective terror.
An art critic visits a missing painter's secret studio and learns why his monsters look more convincing than ordinary imagination can explain.
A sleepless man dreams of an ancient polar city where his sharp eyes earn him a military watch on which an entire people depends.
A solitary count faces a family curse as his thirty-second birthday nears and hidden rooms in his ruined château reveal an old revenge.
A scholar links a dead professor's papers, a global cult, and a sailor's account to the same ancient being beneath the Pacific.
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 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.
