A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Where does the story take place?
A wounded lieutenant seeks his unit near Stone’s River, but the battlefield has changed around him.
An abandoned Missouri farmhouse draws crowds when the vine covering it starts to move without wind.
Separated from his wife, a man wandering a country road sees an impossible light and a familiar figure.
A Confederate sympathizer stands on a railroad bridge with a rope around his neck. Then the rope breaks.
An abandoned Vermont farmhouse draws three neighbors who want to test its haunted reputation.
A boy sets out for water on a snowy night; his footprints end halfway to the spring.
A shepherd meets a radiant stranger who vanishes whenever he questions her.
A minister meets a silent peddler on a misty bridge, then returns to learn why the man was there.
A plantation owner vanishes while walking across an open field in view of several witnesses.
A rancher claims he killed his Chinese worker over a simple task, but a local witness tells another story.
An isolated house rumored to hide a fortune draws visitors after its secretive owner dies.
Two men agree to fight with knives in a house said to be haunted.
A mother is murdered, a father vanishes, and three accounts tell different parts of what happened.
Two travelers shelter from a storm in a house whose owners disappeared years earlier.
A missing farmer is seen miles from home just as his son becomes the chief murder suspect.
A newly married couple’s perfect evening at a country station ends when an unexpected trainload recognizes them.
A Russian landowner insults his silent English governess while fishing, certain that language protects him from judgment.
An orphan girl races through an approaching storm to find a kindly cobbler who can free her brother from a hollow tree.
Two peasants keep vigil beside a shrouded stranger while a nervous pilgrim discovers that faith offers little protection from fear.
A married woman tries to end a friend’s pursuit, only to discover that her principles are less secure than his attention makes them seem.
A comfortable reformer judges a village priest unfit for service, then learns what hunger looks like when pride tries to hide it.
A married young woman crosses the river at night to meet an idle village watchman, knowing the morning will demand an answer.
A driver recalls how his little sister carried a village’s money through a forest after robbers attacked their father.
An idle landscape painter befriends two sisters and finds love complicated by a fierce argument over art, work, and social duty.
