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A newspaper reporter spends the night alone in a Cincinnati house that crowds believe is haunted.
A passenger feels an inexplicable bond with a young woman on an Atlantic crossing.
A Union picket officer fears a corpse more than the enemy near his position.
A man wanders a desolate plain looking for the city of Carcosa and finds signs he cannot explain.
A shoemaker accepts a forty-mile running bet while three men follow close behind in a cart.
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 physician arrives after a sudden death and finds the family's account impossible to reconcile with the room.
Three grave robbers open a coffin on a stormy night and find its occupant sitting up.
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 plantation owner vanishes while walking across an open field in view of several witnesses.
A corpse appears in a locked third-floor bedroom, and no one can identify it.
An exhausted traveler checks into an Atlanta hotel and wakes to find his room occupied.
A man meets a hypnotist he distrusts, then sees his fiancée arrive in town without warning.
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 Russian landowner insults his silent English governess while fishing, certain that language protects him from judgment.
An ailing bank manager meets a petitioner whose helplessness proves more exhausting than any official problem.
Penniless after a hospital stay, a nightclub dancer visits an old admirer and finds that ordinary clothes have changed their acquaintance.
An unknown name on a civil councillor’s visitor list turns a small puzzle into a consuming spiritualist obsession.
A harmless sound in a wedding kitchen convinces a schoolmaster that scandal is about to ruin him.
An indecent antique passes from one grateful professional to another as each admirer searches for a respectable way to lose it.
On a Black Sea steamer, a disillusioned landowner recounts how his worship of a beautiful neighbor drew him across Europe.
