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A young asylum doctor tests a homemade telepathic device on a violent sleepwalker whose dreams describe worlds far beyond Earth.
A penniless London dreamer searches night after night for Celephaïs, the timeless city he first entered in childhood.
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 sculptor and a brilliant stranger use drugs to cross the boundaries of sleep until one reaches a place neither can safely revisit.
A famous escape artist accepts a midnight invitation at Giza and wakes bound in a chamber far beneath the pyramids.
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 scholar links a dead professor's papers, a global cult, and a sailor's account to the same ancient being beneath the Pacific.
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.
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.
Caught in a storm, a genealogist takes shelter in an isolated New England farmhouse whose ancient owner studies a gruesome engraving.
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.
A Yukon camp's judge wakes alone in a boat with no food and no memory of how he got there.
An artist wants to sketch a Cajun fisherman, but the man's daughter worries how strangers will portray him.
A farmer goes to a country ball to escape indecision about marriage and meets a woman with plans of her own.
With Christmas near, a plantation household searches in the rain for three missing turkeys.
A shopkeeper spends his earnings on his sister's hopes of becoming an opera singer.
A planter's challenge to a segregated school sends its teacher to New Orleans, where their conflict follows her.
