[ {"chunk": 181, "story": 16, "summary": "A landowner recalls the first of three times he was truly terrified: idly driving to the station one sultry July evening with a small boy asleep behind him.", "predicament": "A man with nothing to do sets off alone on an ordinary errand at dusk, unaware anything will unsettle him."}, {"chunk": 182, "story": 16, "summary": "Descending into a valley above a sleeping village, he sees a flickering light in the top of a belfry turret where he knows there is nothing that could burn.", "predicament": "A man on a familiar road notices something that should not be there and has no explanation for it."}, {"chunk": 183, "story": 16, "summary": "Unable to explain the light, he is gradually overcome by lonely horror; the boy yawns at first, then says he is frightened too.", "predicament": "A man who cannot explain something strange is overtaken by dread, and his fear spreads to the child beside him."}, {"chunk": 184, "story": 16, "summary": "He whips the horse on, lingers an hour at the station reading papers, never learns the cause; the second fright begins as he walks home happy from a tryst along a railway at night.", "predicament": "A man shaken by something he cannot explain delays going home, and never does learn what it was."}, {"chunk": 185, "story": 16, "summary": "Feeling young and happy, he hears a roar behind him and a lone goods truck with no engine flies past in the dark; he cannot account for it.", "predicament": "A man walking home content is startled by something inexplicable rushing past him in the night."}, {"chunk": 186, "story": 16, "summary": "Suddenly alone and afraid, he runs until he meets a signalman who explains a truck broke loose from a train; the third fright comes as he walks home exhausted from a spring shoot.", "predicament": "A man who has run in panic is told the plain explanation, and is ashamed of how frightened he was."}, {"chunk": 187, "story": 16, "summary": "A strange black spaniel he cannot place follows him deep in the forest and stares at him; exhausted, he thinks of the devil-dog in Faust and grows uneasy.", "predicament": "A tired man alone in the woods is unnerved by a harmless stranger he cannot account for."}, {"chunk": 188, "story": 16, "summary": "The friendly dog frolics around him as he shouts at it, and in panic he runs home, where a visiting friend complains he lost his valuable dog in the forest.", "predicament": "A man flees in terror from something harmless, and learns at home it was only a friend's lost pet."} ]