The Yellow Wallpaper is a psychological short story about a Victorian woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. When her husband deems she needs a "rest cure" after the birth of their child, they rent an abandoned colonial mansion with a "queer air" about it. The narrator's claustrophobic room has unpleasant, oppressive yellow wallpaper which incites her decent into madness.

What does a telepathic, parasitic creature with tentacles, a moonlit-eyed stalker who murders his victims with a pair of scissors, and a retired professional wrestler who pieces together mysterious puzzles in order to ward off an ancient evil force, all have in common? They're just a few of the unique characters inside this ambiguous collection of ten novellas called Midnight World.

In the first of two short stories horror stories, "Warface," urban legend has it that eons ago Samuel Ketchum killed and tortured countless Indians on remote Indian Island. Not even women and children were spared. Years later, tales of bizarre disappearance and drowning surfaced. Locals tell of a tribal witch doctor Ketchum burned alive on that very island and speculate he now roams the land seeking vengeance for his death by collecting innocent souls for eternity. He is Chief Warface, and he's out there haunting Indian Island. In the story "Links to My Past," while visiting a graveyard during a class trip to Old Bethpage Village Restoration, a group of students notice the name on a headstone is the same as one of the students'. That student, Richard Valentine, starts having dreams and goes back to the time dated on the tombstone of 1887. This cemetery contains graves of the unwanted; murderers, rapists, and those possessed by witchcraft. What Valentine sees changes him forever.