
Apollo Kagwa, a used-book dealer in New York, has just become a father when his wife, Emma, begins insisting that their baby is not their baby, and an act he cannot comprehend sends him across the city, and into its fairy tales, to find out why.
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Pepper, a big, hot-tempered moving man, is committed to New Hyde, a psychiatric hospital in Queens, for a seventy-two hour hold after a scuffle with police, and learns that something with a bull's head walks the ward at night.

In 1915 Adelaide Henry sets fire to her family's California farm and heads for a homestead in Montana, taking with her a heavy steamer trunk she keeps locked at all times.

Thirty-year-old twin siblings in pandemic New York learn their Chinese-immigrant parents are not quite what their cooking-show manners suggest.

Harriet and David Lovatt, a happy couple who want a big family in a big house, have four children, and then a fifth, Ben, who is not like the others.

Tom Flanagan and Del Nightingale, friends from a grim boarding school, spend a summer at Shadowland, the Vermont estate of Del's uncle, a stage magician who promises to teach them real magic.

Nella Rogers, the only Black editorial assistant at a Manhattan publishing house, is thrilled when Hazel joins the office, until anonymous notes start appearing on her desk telling her to leave.

Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.

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.

Days before a blockbuster exhibition opens at New York's Museum of Natural History, visitors and guards are found savagely killed in its halls, and a graduate student, a city detective and an unusual FBI agent from New Orleans come to suspect something is living in the basement.

Rob, a mother in the suburbs who fears what her older daughter Callie is becoming, drives her out to Sundial, the remote desert house where Rob grew up, and begins telling her the family's story.

Scott Crane, a professional gambler who lost an eye in a strange poker game on a houseboat on Lake Mead twenty years ago, finds that the men he played with then want to finish what they started.

Five gothic, fairy-tale horror stories in comics form, a new bride in a house with a secret, sisters waiting for a father who does not come home, drawn in Carroll's luminous, blood-red palette.