This volume opens with the title story, in which a boy and his friends follow a silent girl to the traveling circus she performs with, and the show proves far more sinister than the acts on stage. It also collects Gravetown, where siblings covering up a fatal accident reach a town whose dead turn into gravestones where they fell; The Adjacent Window, about a boy tormented by the neighbor at the window facing his own; and two Sleuth Kids stories about the Hikizuri siblings, one turning on a suicide threat, the other on a seance for their dead father.