A detective finds a large mass of severed body parts, and sets to figure out the identity of the killer and their motives before they strike again.

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.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

A leech-like, jellyfish-like animal that consumes grief is used for various medicinal purposes, but rituals surrounding these animals have been corrupted in recent years, resulting in these animals' impending extinction.

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.”

When it's her turn to give her body over to the blood bees, a girl makes a different decision.

A gifted spellcrafter ponders an ethical question regarding the dead: to reanimate or to not reanimate?

After the father turns into a tree, a family struggles to figure out what to do with him.

Come winter, a girl discovers the horrific truth behind her friend's dreams.