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Dr. Reed Fassin visits a mountain town where a healer uses wax figures and ritual to treat patients. Convinced that the practice exploits their suffering, he challenges the healer and the gathered crowd. His intervention draws him into a conflict that tests his certainty about belief, suggestion and physical harm.
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A fisherman tests his homemade fish-spotting device on the Rogue River and hooks a steelhead that speaks through his earphones. The catch argues with him, criticizes his technique and proposes a bargain. What began as an ordinary fishing trip becomes a contest of persuasion between a stubborn angler and his equally stubborn prey.
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A New York salesman steps into Ganymede House, a shop whose unusual merchandise appears to come from another world. He chooses a salt cellar as a present for his wife, only to find that it behaves in ways no household object should. When he tries to return to the shop, locating it becomes a puzzle of its own.
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Constance Sprague's engagement to Lynn Holt draws her into a family intent on preserving its reputation. When her widowed mother's friendship with John Barse becomes a subject of gossip, Constance faces demands that test both her loyalty and her love. The story examines what happens when a marriage is expected to satisfy an entire family.
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Shirley Mason hopes to build a marriage with Kent while continuing her work in interior decoration. His flirtations and the traces of another woman make her question the trust their life together requires. A mocking stage performance sharpens her doubts about what a wife is expected to accept.
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Jessie Dealey is nursing a dying woman when she becomes involved with Robert Walsh, a married farmer. A visit to his pregnant wife forces her to confront the promises he has made and the different futures the two women fear. Their encounter exposes the strain his conduct places on both their lives.
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Traveling salesman Connor arrives in Springfield late at night and asks where he can get a quiet meal. A hotel clerk sends him to a small restaurant known for serving customers with special diets. An unpleasant steak and an increasingly strange conversation make Connor suspect that the staff have mistaken him for someone else.
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Edward Falkland survives in a deserted city after plague and war, sheltering in a hospital while hungry dogs gather outside. Fear and isolation have made him hostile to the animals around him. An encounter with a wary Great Dane challenges that hostility and the habits on which his survival has come to depend.
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Florence Barker grows restless in her comfortable home while her husband Howard travels for work. The attentions of Roy Osney, a younger aspiring performer, offer excitement and lead to a request for money. Florence must decide how much she understands about the man she admires and the marriage she takes for granted.
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In prison, Luis hears Old Juan describe a cell where a hidden scorpion is said to kill its occupants during the night. When the guards move him there, the story becomes a threat he cannot put out of his mind. Alone in the darkness, he listens for movement and tries to endure until morning.
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After her death, Mona Wilson wakes in a gray world that resembles her former roominghouse. Bells, repetitive work and unfamiliar devices regulate life there, but the routines offer her little comfort. Her attempts to escape raise troubling questions about whether death has changed the conditions she wanted to leave behind.
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David Hughes stays in Queens while his wife and children spend the summer in the country. An affair with Janice Keller, who lives across the hall, offers an escape from his dissatisfaction with married life. Secrecy becomes harder to maintain as Janice’s expectations and the risk of discovery grow.
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The Otis family moves into an English house whose resident ghost expects to frighten them away. Instead, the Americans meet his rattling chains and mysterious stains with practical remedies and jokes. Only Virginia begins to understand the sorrow behind his haunting.
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William Rameses, a businessman fascinated by ancient Egypt, hires a woman whose appearance reminds him of Cleopatra. A visit to an antique dealer brings them into contact with a ring said to have belonged to the queen. As they investigate its inscription and history, an old curse begins to intrude on their lives.
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Millionaire Asa Brand recruits Clark Stannard and a group of desperate men to search for the legendary Lake of Life in Africa. Their expedition enters a hidden region divided by rival peoples and dangerous alliances. Stories of waters that promise immortality draw the travelers into a struggle over who will reach the lake first.
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