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 boy chafes under his mother’s constraints regarding the strange allure of his elusive neighbor, eventually falling prey to her supernatural charm.

A roomer lives in a house of an old couple in Long Island. He lives a meager life and witnesses strange things in his small town full of gossip and secrets.

A man watches an old woman visit an abandoned house in his neighborhood year after year, and he tries to piece her story together from town gossip.

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

An aging woman visits her childhood friend in the basement of a wealthy woman’s home where she cooks. She’s fascinated when her friend describes her employer’s religious practices and wonders if new scripture might help her navigate her life.

A woman who is bored with her life becomes captivated when a photographer mistakes her for the woman who owns the boarding house across the street.

After their stay in a rundown boardinghouse, a boy and his mother hunt for an apartment and the boy dreams of a house with a warm fireplace of his own.

After a city-slicker moves to the country to build his dream home among nature, he meets a mysterious hunter who keeps his passion going. When the hunter stops visiting, the man becomes disillusioned as he waits for his newfound friend to return.

An amateur innkeeper struggles to demonstrate her knowledge of urban sophistication to her important guests and fails to grasp the benefits of authenticity to one’s heritage, leading to her mother being better-received by the guests.