Short Story
物語や神話を研究するナラトロジー（物語論）の専門家アリシアは、講演で訪れたトルコのイスタンブールで、美しいガラスの小瓶を手に入れる。ふたを開けると、巨大な魔人ジンが中から現れ、自由にしてくれたお礼に三つの願いをかなえようと彼女に申し出る。しかし物語の専門家であるアリシアは、魔人の誘いに乗らなかった。
Novel
A classics professor finds herself enticed by a Matisse print and becomes enamored with its owner, hairdresser Lucian.
Novel
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Story
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.
