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Where does the story take place?
A neglected shopkeeper discovers that a crystal egg offers a living view of another world—and that its inhabitants may be watching back.
A ragged stranger claims to carry a fortune in man-made diamonds, but every proof of his success has made him look more like a criminal.
A successful politician confides that a green door has offered him glimpses of a lost garden of perfect happiness throughout his life.
A housemaid watches her respectable fiancé rise in the world—and begin to treat their long engagement as something beneath him.
An abused laborer in a roaring power station begins to worship the largest dynamo as a god capable of judging his brutal supervisor.
A father follows his young son into a shop where stage tricks become genuine magic and every doorway leads deeper from ordinary London.
A shy novice becomes a theater critic and finds the stage’s poses and speeches steadily replacing his own personality.
A nervous visitor steals a scientist’s deadliest culture and races across London with catastrophe—and fame—on his mind.
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.
An obese clubman demands an old family remedy for losing weight, only to discover how literally the recipe works.
A self-proclaimed 228-year-old gentleman recalls evenings with Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and their sharp-tongued London circle.
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.
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 famous escape artist accepts a midnight invitation at Giza and wakes bound in a chamber far beneath the pyramids.
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 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 young singer crosses many lands searching for the beautiful city he remembers, hoping to find people who understand his songs.
