A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How the prose reads.
A mining camp hangs a murderer, but the crowd is unprepared when the body is lowered.
A newspaper reporter spends the night alone in a Cincinnati house that crowds believe is haunted.
A wounded lieutenant seeks his unit near Stone’s River, but the battlefield has changed around him.
A Union picket officer fears a corpse more than the enemy near his position.
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 man wanders a desolate plain looking for the city of Carcosa and finds signs he cannot explain.
A Confederate sympathizer stands on a railroad bridge with a rope around his neck. Then the rope breaks.
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.
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.
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.
Two travelers shelter from a storm in a house whose owners disappeared years earlier.
On a black, wind-lashed night, a cemetery watchman agrees to guide a lost pilgrim and begins to regret his kindness.
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 young man hides declarations of love inside the roar of a sled ride, leaving a frightened girl unsure whether hope or the wind is speaking.
A wealthy lover tries to settle an adulterous triangle with cash, only to discover that affection cannot be bought.
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.
