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The women of the Phetchaburi donated their hair to the master weaver Chai Charoen Saetang so she could craft a trap for the river dragon who had bedeviled the village since the floods.

Horatio Packard thought his Protectograph would revolutionize business and make him a fortune. This turned out to be the case, until the automatic check writing machine embezzled that fortune and left him penniless.

The scarabs had been dispatched on the pharaoh’s two fastest ships in opposite directions; his most loyal captains instructed to scuttle the crafts and kill the crew when they had sailed for ten days, then blind themselves, lest they somehow find a way home. The stonesmith and his sons had been executed, all his writings burned. All this to save his kingdom from ruin, pharaoh’s twin brother thought, smiling, as he turned the two smooth pieces of stone, pulsing with eldritch energy, in his hands.

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The knife was unwieldy to use at best, but the hands mounted to Ivar the Merciless’ shop wall usually served as enough of a shoplifting deterrent.

Darryl Karrew of Narraganset, Rhode Island had the largest collection of ships in bottles in New England, having carried on his great grandfather's hobby. That is, until the great nor'easter of '87, which flooded his house and washed out the entire fleet. Turns out a good number of them were seaworthy; folks were finding them washed up on beaches up and down the Atlantic seaboard for the next ten years.

Some loud, angry days Rufus would have to hide from his brother. He sat in his treehouse until it got dark and gazed out at the world and imagined himself running away to all the far off places he could see.

What are you afraid of? It knows.

As Leonard Pimkin sealed up the cave, he hoped this reminder that something once lived on this desolate, forgotten world would be a small comfort to its discoverer.