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11. Mono No Aware, 4 stars. Japanese man on an American evacuation ship.
12. All the Flavors, 4 stars. Chinese goldminers settle in Idaho.
13. A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel, 5 stars. The cost of progress.
14. The Litigation Master and the Monkey King, 3 stars. [2014]
15. The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary, 5 stars. Single use time travel relives war atrocities.

06. Simulacrum, 5 stars. Inventor of interactive home movies.
07. The Regular, 4 stars. [2015]
08. The Paper Menagerie, 4 stars. [2014]
09. An Advanced Readers' Picture Book of Comparative Cognition, 3 stars. Alien races memory systems.
10. The Waves, 3 stars. Human race adapting/evolving/reproducing?

39. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 4 stars. Legendary family dog demon seems to haunt the moors.

01. The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species, 3 stars. Alien races relationship with writing.
02. State Change, 4 stars. Souls in inanimate objects.
03. The Perfect Match, 2 stars. GOOGLE BAD!
04. Good Hunting, 4 stars. Old magic is replaced/diminished by industrial magic.
05. The Literomancer, 4 stars. Little girl says too much about new friends.

Wiki: "Father and I crouched behind the scholar’s rock in the courtyard."

Music: "Sai woke to the rousing first movement of Vivaldi’s violin concerto in C minor, “Il Sospetto”."

Wiki: "...he knew that the quipus had been made to keep track of accounts and numbers..."

35. M.R. James - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', 4 stars. [2016]
37. Ambrose Bierce - The Stranger, 3 stars. [2016]

05. The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, 4 stars. Archdeacon gets the job under tragic circumstances.
06. Martin's Close, 4 stars. Gentleman toys with a "natural" girl's heart.
07. Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance, 3 stars. Man unexpectedly inherits estate from relative he's never met.

Word: "That's what he was, sir, a complete valentudinarian [sic]."

1. A person in poor health or sickly, especially one who is constantly obsessed with their state of health

Wiki: "May your residence among us be marked as a red-letter day, sir."

01. A School Story, 4 stars. Latin phrases make a teacher go funny.
02. The Rose Garden, 2 stars. Haunted garden post.
03. The Tractate Middoth, 4 stars. Old gent searching for a book with a surprise inside.
04. Casting the Runes, 5 stars. Vindictive author punishes his critics.

05. Number 13, 3 stars. Hotel grows a new room at night.
06. Count Magnus, 4 stars. Hobby researcher meddles in local Swedish secret.
07. 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', 4 stars. Skeptical professor finds a whistle on the beach.
08. The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, 4 stars. Solving puzzles to find a treasure, Dan Brown style.

01. Canon Alberic's Scrap-book, 4 stars. Tourist visits small church, buys old book.
02. Lost Hearts, 4 stars. Reclusive man takes in orphaned cousin.
03. The Mezzotint, 4 stars. Picture changes over time.
04. The Ash-tree, 5 stars. The consequences of burning a real witch.

Word: "...a more formidable persecutor even than a termagant wife."

1. A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.

22. Haita the Shepherd, 2 stars. Shepherd meets a flaky broad.
23. An Inhabitant of Carcosa, 2 stars. Lost guy can't find his way home.
24. The Stranger, 3 stars. Desert ghost turns up for a chat.

18. John Mortonson's Funeral, 4 stars. Surprise guest at a funeral.
19. The Realm of the Unreal, 4 stars. Man regrets badmouthing magicians.
20. John Bartine's Watch, 2 stars. Family heirloom causes anxiety near 11pm.
21. The Damned Thing, 3 stars. Shooting holiday ends in tragedy.

13. A Baby Tramp, 4 stars. Orphan returns home to his mother.
14. The Night-Doings at "Deadman's", 4 stars. Man desecrates dead servant's hair for fun.
15. Beyond the Wall, 4 stars. Shy man taps on a pretty girl's wall.
16. A Psychological Shipwreck, 3 stars. Passenger is drawn to girl on same voyage.
17. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, 4 stars. Dueling in a murder house.

07. A Tough Tussle, 4 stars. Officer is afraid of dead bodies.
08. One of Twins, 4 stars. Twin knows a secret about brother's fiance.
09. The Haunted Valley, 2 stars. Drunk murders servant in a fit of rage.
10. A Jug of Sirup, 4 stars. Shopkeeper come back to run his shop.
11. Staley Fleming's Hallucination, 5 stars. Loyal puppy avenges his owner.
12. A Resumed Identity, 4 stars. Soldier loses track of time.

Wiki: "If you stand in an acoustic shadow there is one direction from which you will hear nothing."

01. The Death of Halpin Frayser, 4 stars. Momma's boy leaves home, mom gets revenge?
02. The Secret of Macarger's Gulch, 3 stars. Sheltering in creepy cabins gives man bad dreams.
03. One Summer Night, 4 stars. [2015]
04. The Moonlit Road, 3 stars. Crime of mistaken passion from 3 sides.
05. A Diagnosis of Death, 4 stars. Young renter sees a doctor's ghost.
06. Moxon's Master, 2 stars. Machines are sore losers.

04. The Dumbledore, 3 stars. Mid-life crisis affair with dead war buddy's girl.
05. The Woolworth Spectacles, 4 stars. New glasses turn meek woman into a conniving flirt.
06. Portland Bill, 5 stars. Helping a young mother look for her missing son.
07. The Ugly House, 5 stars. Newcomer tries to knock down old man's house for an access road.

01. The Devil and Clocky Watson, 3 stars. Sexy clock is cursed, or is it? Dun dun duuunnn!
02. The Doll, 4 stars. Dealer buys assortment of fancy dolls, one is a rotten apple.
03. The Last Day of Miss Dorinda Molyneaux, 4 stars. New teacher has students make tomb rubbings in creepy old church.

01. Don’t Look Now, 5 stars. Grieving parents warned off Venice by psychic twins. (?!)
02. Not After Midnight, 4 stars. Painting holiday is marred by obnoxious neighbor.
03. A Border-Line Case, 3 stars. Daughter surprise visit to dead dad's old friend.
04. The Way of the Cross, 3 stars. Backup vicar "leads" disastrous trip to Jerusalem.
05. The Breakthrough, 2 stars. Experimenting with the soul/sound waves?

04. The Little Photographer, 5 stars. Madame la Marquise spices up her boring holiday with an affair.
05. Kiss Me Again, Stranger, 5 stars. Mechanic falls head over heels for a pretty usherette.
06. The Old Man, 4 stars. Creepy seeming observer relates a story of family drama.

01. The Birds, 4 stars. Family survives suicidal bird attacks thanks to a little planning.
02. Monte Verità, 4 stars. Mountaineer friends fall out of touch after one marries a beautiful woman.
03. The Apple Tree, 4 stars. Uncaring bastard of a widower has vendetta against droopy tree.

Wiki: "Al-Sayyid Ahmad surrendered himself to the resonant sound of the qanun, which set his heart on fire."

14. Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death, 3 stars. Spidery lovers try to fight instinct.
15. On the Last Afternoon, 4 stars. Dying man tries to save community from rutting cow-lobster-mountains.
16. She Waits for All Men Born, 4 stars. Evolution ends with a pretty white girl.
17. Slow Music, 3 stars. Man and woman wander around/screw.
18. And So On, and So On, 2 stars. Conversation at the end of the galaxy.

"He heard staccato noises and came out into another courtyard where plump white birds walked with jerking heads. “Chickens!” he decided, delighted by the irrational variety of this place."