A young lute player is aided by a harmonizing spider who resides in her lute, unbeknownst to her. Though the spider becomes attached to the lute player, she continues to feel loneliness and longing for her home among other spiders in the forest of her birth.

A mysterious orchestra conductor who has grown a tail generates intrigue among members of New York's high society and captures the attention of a princess.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.