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A hunter dies after an attack by something his companion cannot see.
An orphan girl races through an approaching storm to find a kindly cobbler who can free her brother from a hollow tree.
Beneath the stars of the steppe, shepherds and an overseer trade legends of treasure and wonder what happiness might be.
A bailiff meets an old shepherd in a rain-soaked wood, where a dwindling natural world gives voice to their own despair.
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.
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 Norwegian fisherman explains how careful observation saved him when a hurricane swept his boat into the Maelström.
A lost traveler follows an unusually beautiful lane to a cottage where every detail of the house and valley shows careful design.
After a storm destroys his ship, a skeptical traveler finds himself aboard an ancient vessel racing toward the South Pole.
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.
A solitary traveler watches a fairy circle a divided island as sunset turns the scene into a vision of aging and death.
A wealthy young man rejects status and politics to treat landscape gardening as an art and a plan for a happy life.
Nick Adams walks away from a burned town into the Michigan wilderness, building a camp and fishing the river one careful act at a time.
A dazzling Mediterranean boat ride turns from news of disaster to a friend’s indecorous tale about snow.
A hunter in a frozen marsh witnesses a wild bird's devotion and finds his sport transformed by the sight.
A seasoned boatman anchors for a quiet smoke on the Seine, only to spend the night trapped in fog, silence, and mounting terror.
A family’s hatred of hunting begins with two brothers and the immense wolf that turns their winter chase into a private war.
An inventor descends five miles beneath the ocean in a steel sphere and finds that the abyss is neither empty nor lifeless.
Alone in a remote Borneo observatory, an astronomer discovers that the darkness inside the dome holds a threat far closer than the stars.
A Brazilian gunboat sent against a plague of giant ants discovers an organized enemy capable of challenging human rule of the Amazon.
A quiet orchid collector longs for one remarkable event, then a mysterious plant from the tropics begins to bloom in his greenhouse.
A seaside walker discovers that unfamiliar deep-sea creatures have reached the English coast—and have developed a taste for human prey.
