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Franz Westen, a widowed writer of weird fiction in San Francisco, spots a pale figure waving from a hilltop he can see from his window, and comes across an old book on the haunting powers of great cities.
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A Dark Matter
In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
Tim Underhill returns to Millhaven after his sister-in-law's suicide, and finds his fifteen-year-old nephew Mark fixated on an empty house in the neighbourhood with a terrible history.
The Good House
Two years after her teenage son died at her late grandmother's house in Sacajawea, Washington, Angela Toussaint goes back to it, and learns why the women in her family were once feared there.
Song of Kali
Robert Luczak, an American poet and editor, travels to Calcutta with his Indian wife and their baby daughter to collect a new manuscript by M. Das, a celebrated Bengali poet believed to have died years before.
Sister Creatures
Young women from Pinecreek, an isolated Louisiana town, try to outrun its damage in Munich, Baltimore and New York, and a shapeshifting presence that first surfaces in a stolen doll follows them wherever they go.
Bag of Bones
Four years after his wife's sudden death, the bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to write, goes to their lake house in western Maine, where he is drawn into a young widow's fight to keep her daughter from the child's wealthy grandfather.
The Haunting of Velkwood
Talitha Velkwood was one of three girls who got out when an anomaly swallowed her suburban street in the 1980s, leaving everyone else there as ghosts. Decades later a researcher persuades her to go back in.
The Bog Wife
For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.
The Hollow Places
Newly divorced, Kara moves in with her uncle above his Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy in a small North Carolina town, and finds a hole in the wall that opens onto somewhere else.
The King in Yellow
Stories of artists, lovers and madmen in New York and Paris, the first of them linked by The King in Yellow, a play said to drive anyone who reads its second act insane.
The Cloisters
Ann Stilwell, fresh from a small college in Washington State, takes a summer job at The Cloisters, the Met's museum of medieval art in New York, where a curator and his assistant are researching the history of tarot.
Handling the Undead
In a Stockholm heatwave, a strange electrical field wakes the city's recently dead, and their families have to decide what to do with them.