In a small town in present-day America where an ominous legend and a recent string of male disappearances have unnerved the public imagination, a hitchhiker and a barefoot traveler tread in the dark woods.

A man and his friends discover a map of Mexico that shows a series of ghost towns. However, these ghost towns aren't empty, nor are they typical.

A large factory is shut down in a small town in Illinois, and the town's residents face a sudden economic depression — until a prison is built where the factory had been, invigorating the economy but bringing along with it unintended consequences.

One of the last inhabitants of a dying midwest town reconsiders the dramatic events and personal tragedies that defined both her and the town’s past after an old friend brings new information to light.

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.

In a town so small it can hardly be called a town, a black woman serves a rich white family until a series of horrific events causes the single joy in her life to vanish.

A group of men in a small American town make a deal with an ancient being in the 1960s so that the town would never change. Now, the last of the men is on his death bed, and the rest of the town struggles with what his death means for them.

In an East Ohio town, a middle-aged man checks into a hotel and explores the various characters, events and surroundings that define small town life.

In a small rural farm town, a middle-aged poet struggles with aging and finding meaning in his life.

A young man and his widowed mother move to the Midwestern countryside, where the mother runs a deadly get-rich-quick scheme.