Local prospectors wait expectantly for the return of Henry's wife.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Story which promotes the argument that a pure, sober and honest man cannot compete against a prodigal son.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Deeply pessimistic tale about what in life holds value.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The death of a exemplary servant is widely reported.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The first man on earth recalls the early years.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Creation's early days as recounted by earth's first woman.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Morality tale based on an elderly uncle's promise of his fortune to a thrifty couple.
- Length: 32 pages
- Age Rating: PG
On Christmas Eve in remote settlement cut off by heavy flooding, a group of men pay a visit on a deprived boy.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
It is said that when a Cernogratz dies in the family castle, the wolves in the forest howl all night long ... but Baroness Gruebel, new owner of Cernogratz castle, is sceptical.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Octavian Ruttle's guilt over his killing of a chicken-stealing cat is not helped by the growing hatred of its owner's children.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Luitpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat, sits in a cafe in Vienna and contemplates news of the rise of the Balkan States.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
What do an horrific dream and the name 'Catharine Larue' have to do with a man found dead in the hills around the Nappa Valley?
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
At night, in the autumn of 1861, a brave but sensitive Federal officer sits alone in the heart of a forest in western Virginia.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
A man uncovers the dark secret of a mysterious valley owned by a xenophobic drunkard.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
A compilation of the facts and testimonies of witnesses following the return of a dedicated shop keeper from the dead.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG