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.

Every year, in a small town overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, fourteen children are invited to the Skullpocket Fair, a carnival run by ghouls. But only the strongest will survive and be indoctrinated into the ghouls’ theocratic cult.

During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.

An eerie description of characteristic fairy tale elements and how they are embodied in characters.

A man recalls his childhood near the woods and the creature which lurked within it.

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 woman goes into the woods and learns a horrific truth about her late grandmother.

An old man recalls the day he went fishing as a boy, not long after the death of his brother, and had a terrifying encounter with the Devil.

A little girl tells the story of how her ceramic figurines come from glazing little people that live in the walls of all houses.

In a village where girls are offered up as wives to a mysterious god, a beautiful but vain teenage girl seeks to replace her sister as the all-powerful god's wife.