A story of three things: an eight-foot-tall introspective giant, a thoughtful and dangerously ambitious child who doesn't understand the enormity of the task he's undertaking, and a world that's not ready for the consequences of one young man's thoughtless genius.

A couple in early 1800s Louisiana heads home, only to spot something unusual by a pillar, something that will change their lives—and the lives of the most powerful family in town—forever.

Two stories by U.S. writer O. Henry. In the first, a young woman is dying, pinning her hopes to a leaf dangling from a branch. In the second, ol’ Soapy, a homeless man in NYC, gears up for a trip to his summer home: prison. The only problem? He can’t seem to get himself thrown in there.

Our humble hero just wants to swing by a remote mental institution in the south of France on his way home to America. His plan is to spend one night in the self-described ‘madhouse’ to satisfy his curiosity. What could be wrong with spending a single night in a rural and private 1800s asylum without a means of escape? You know, besides every word in that sentence.

Edmond Dantes returns to France as a captain, high on his fresh promotion and giddy over his soon-to-be marriage to the love of his life, the one and only Mercedes. The only issue? He doesn’t realize he has enemies everywhere and that the last request of his dying leader—simply delivering a letter—might have changed his life forever.

Watson hasn’t spoken to Sherlock in months. But when the distraught wife of a friend comes to his house late one night, one thing leads to another and suddenly he’s in an opium den facing a shocking discovery.

A man in 1950s middle America emerges from working indoors all day to find something horrifying in the center of town. The strangest thing? No one else seems to have a problem with it but him.