A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
The narrator’s attitude toward the story.
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 scholar climbs a forbidden mountain to see the gods of Earth, certain that his learning can protect him from their anger.
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.
A young singer crosses many lands searching for the beautiful city he remembers, hoping to find people who understand his songs.
An American heir restores his family’s ruined English priory, where only he and his cats can hear rats moving inside the walls.
A doctor and his nephew investigate a Providence house where generations of residents have weakened, gone mad, or died.
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.
A lonely lighthouse keeper boards a white ship under the full moon and sails through dreamlike lands of beauty, mystery, and danger.
Hearing that his former love is struggling, Doudouce travels to see her and her family.
On Easter morning, three children take flowers from a recluse's hill, drawing him back toward the village.
A woman who has feared crossing the bayou since childhood must help a boy hurt on her side of it.
A young man is pushed out of the only home he has known after his guardian dies.
An enslaved young woman refuses the marriage her mistress has chosen and falls in love with another man.
Pélagie saves for decades to rebuild the plantation house lost in the war, while her sister lives beside its ruins.
On her way to Mass, a girl stays with an elderly neighbor whom no one else can tend.
A young man pretends to be ill, leaving his godmother to handle work meant for him.
A woman who has never wanted children must care for a neighbor's four youngsters.
An older woman refuses to leave the house she was given when freed from slavery.
When her French village empties under British rule, a young hunter must decide where she belongs.
