Through a confronting use of second-person, four haunted houses are hypothesized, each worse than the last, and ending with the most terrifying picture of all: dark reality in suburbia.

A young man takes a woman to haunted ruins in England. They begin a happy romance until they encounter an enthralling monster and return from the ruins with portions of their memory missing.

Two young boys cutting through a field at night encounter a ghostly tobacco plantation and struggle to free its inhabitants whose spirits are tied to the land.

Two twin girls live in a haunted house with their father as he writes his next book.

A woman’s hallucinations of her dead lover take a dark turn when he convinces her to accompany him to the afterlife.

Two men, who are both missing loved ones, need to uncover the supernatural goings-on at a spelunking site where their companions were last seen.

While investigating an architectural impossibility in the structure of their new home, a young boy witnesses his little sister be erased from reality.

Even as he roams as a ghost, a former slave owner rejects the reality of his afterlife, but cannot hide his immense gratitude for his fiercely loyal servant, Sam, who is also undead.

A mother with a haunted past fears her six-year-old daughter is not fully human and wishes she would leave.

A town has frequent visits from phantom apparitions, and the townspeople have many explanations for the ghosts, ranging from disbelief to hallucination to the idea that humans and phantoms were once a single race.