A middle-aged woman visits Frederik Ruysch's "cabinet of curiosities" in Amsterdam, where the host takes her on a tour of his grotesque displays of embryos, fetuses, and deformed body parts.

In a convent, a young nun’s internal war between desire and religion comes to a head when she makes a new, devious friend.

A man tells his life story leading up to his suicide, attempting to explain the seemingly-inescapable mental paradoxes he found himself facing in his quest to be an authentic person, which reinforced, time after time, his belief that he was a fraud.

A virus spreads between music-playing electronic devices, pausing music across the world and playing a series of chords that awe everyone.

Two sisters, both Sociology professors, find themselves summering husbandless in their rickety childhood home with their bastion of six children, their ornery mother, and their paralyzed father. They swap between stories of their upbringing and their present task of preparing for a fatal hurricane which will challenge their quaint way of life.

A humanoid immortal figure lives through the years following the death of her friend. As she watches the last of her friend's lineage die after 600 years, she reflects on the nature of her relationship with the friend.

A collection of excerpts regarding humanity's various pursuits of science throughout time.

While experiencing a midlife crisis, a respectable man must choose between his wife and his commitment to an eccentric political party.

When an astronaut awakens from hibernation long before he has reached his destination, he tries to get answers from the spaceship’s onboard computer.

A growing family moves into a new house in upstate New York, in order to escape the danger of the city. However, as they begin to settle into their new home, the family is torn apart by an infestation of rabies and curious hauntings.