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.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

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.”

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

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