<Dt> "Usher II" </Dt> <Dd> Literary expert William Stendahl has retreated to Mars to escape the book - burning dictates of the Moral Climate Monitors . On Mars he has built his image of the perfect haunted mansion, replicating the building from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks and the extermination of all life in the surrounding area . When the Moral Climate Monitors come to visit, each of them is killed in a manner reminiscent of a different Poe story, culminating in the immurement of the lead inspector . When all of Stendahl's persecutors are dead, the house sinks into the lake . </Dd> <Dl> <Dt> "The Playground" </Dt> <Dd> When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies . When his son begins playing in a local playground, he becomes deeply disturbed when he sees a bully from his youth . </Dd> </Dl> <Dt> "The Playground" </Dt>

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