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A Union picket officer fears a corpse more than the enemy near his position.
A fugitive meets a silent figure in a dark forest and follows him back toward the jail.
A man wanders a desolate plain looking for the city of Carcosa and finds signs he cannot explain.
A hunter dies after an attack by something his companion cannot see.
Lost in a California forest, Halpin Frayser dreams of a deadly encounter with someone he knows.
Alone in a deserted mining camp, Hiram Beeson waits each night for a visitor from beneath his floor.
A hunter spends the night in an abandoned gulch cabin and hears a struggle he cannot see.
A stranger at a desert campfire tells how four prospectors were trapped in a cave thirty years earlier.
An eloquent abbot leaves his desert monastery to condemn the city’s sins, then discovers how seductive a warning can become.
A failed hunting trip brings a ruined prince to the edge of an estate owned by the wealthy woman he once refused to marry.
Sheltering from a storm, a fearful forester says wicked men frighten him more than wild beasts—then a cry comes from outside.
A driver recalls how his little sister carried a village’s money through a forest after robbers attacked their father.
At a remote Siberian ferry, a hardened exile tells a homesick young man that survival depends on wanting nothing.
A frightened surveyor invents a fearsome reputation to protect himself on a night journey—and makes his driver even more afraid.
A rational man recalls three ordinary sights that, in solitude and darkness, became sources of overpowering terror.
Driving his gravely ill wife through a blizzard, a drunken turner discovers remorse only when time is almost gone.
Two impoverished hunters, unable to reclaim a pawned gun, walk to the spring woods to see whether the snipe have arrived.
A starving she-wolf raids a forest hut for a lamb and carries off an unexpected captive with no sense of danger.
As invulnerable creatures overrun Earth, a scientist sends ninety-nine volunteers into the fourth dimension to strike at their source.
A planter hunts the alien beast eating his crop, only to find that each mile of the chase makes his quarry smarter and more dangerous.
A sick young man enters the Virginia mountains and returns with a precise memory of dying in another century.
After promising his dying cousin that he will never love again, a grieving man leaves their hidden valley and faces a second love.
A demon describes a solitary man who endures a violent, unnatural landscape until the world around him becomes completely still.
An heir uses an immense fortune to create a private landscape meant to surpass nature without losing its beauty.
