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A stranger at a desert campfire tells how four prospectors were trapped in a cave thirty years earlier.
A driver recalls how his little sister carried a village’s money through a forest after robbers attacked their father.
An eight-year-old starving on a Moscow street fixates on a restaurant sign and an unknown food called oysters.
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.
When a reclusive professor’s familiar street begins to lose blocks and buildings, an old theory about reality becomes his only explanation.
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.
Condemned by the Inquisition, a prisoner must understand each new torture before darkness, a hidden pit, and a descending blade kill him.
When a fisherman’s arm is trapped in a trawling cable, his captain brother must choose between saving him and saving an expensive net.
A lonely Parisian seeking company for the night hears a noise behind a hidden door in a sex worker’s rented room.
Years after an abusive fisherman vanishes at sea, his widow hears his commanding voice return inside her quiet home.
A general challenges a dinner party’s easy use of the word “horrible” with two memories of people stripped of humanity.
Two guides winter alone at an Alpine inn until one vanishes into the snow and the survivor begins hearing his call.
A disabled beggar, rejected from every familiar door, sets out hungry across a winter landscape governed by suspicion and contempt.
An exhausted French detachment facing a deadly winter march finds unexpected resolve after taking two civilians under its protection.
A stranded collector hatches an extinct giant bird on a lonely atoll and gains a companion that keeps growing.
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 colonial patrol trapped on a cliff must escape enemy fire, thirst, and a drop that seems impossible to survive.
A seaside walker discovers that unfamiliar deep-sea creatures have reached the English coast—and have developed a taste for human prey.
A new star grows brighter each night, and one mathematician realizes that its path will bring catastrophe to Earth.
Confined to a couch, an invalid watches a distant manhunt as entertainment until the chase crosses the river and comes to his window.
A famous escape artist accepts a midnight invitation at Giza and wakes bound in a chamber far beneath the pyramids.
