A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

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.

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.

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

A female caretaker visits a man confined to his house every week to bring him food and tell him stories, but when one of her tales is interrupted, he begins to worry about the future of their arrangement.

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 girl goes through a door in her house and discovers a parallel universe — only in this world, her seemingly loving family have cruel intentions.

A man develops a deep interest in the author of a children's book he reads to his daughters. Ignoring his wife's confusion and mild disapproval, he goes to visit the author's old house and takes his daughters with him.

A man tells his assistant about his first marriage when they go on a business trip to Chicago after the company opens up a new branch in the building he used to live in with his first wife.

On the brink of death, an elderly man recounts his life to his great grandson, revealing that his mother's schizophrenic delusions of an otherworldly fantasy land were no delusions at all.