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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family
"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" is a Gothic short story by Sheridan Le Fanu focusing on a young woman who marries a Scottish landowner with a dark past. A short story whose haunting and semi-supernatural elements might have influenced Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre", Le Fanu’s tale combines a lot of elements – horror, romance, thriller, and drama – to create a compelling and sophisticated world from which there is no easy escape. All this, together with the countless secrets, murders,...
Engels | 1 uur 36 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads Schalken the Painter
"Schalken the Painter" is a ghost short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, taking place in the 17th-century Netherlands. An aspiring painter falls in love with his master’s niece but one day, a mysterious man comes to ask for the niece’s hand, and the master agrees. Yet the heartbroken painter can’t help but feel that is something totally wrong with this new suitor. This is a short story of about greedy family relations, and is a psychologically unnerving and ghastly tale that fans of horror fiction will...
Engels | 58 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads The Room in the Dragon Volant
"The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a mysterious story about a premature burial, a theme favoured by Poe some years previously. When a chivalric young man tries to save an innocent countess from the clutches of a greedy count, little does he suspect that the whole situation could be a trap. With plenty of Gothic elements and some remarkable episodes of horror, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a haunting mystery story that will keep readers at the edge of their seat. B. J. Harrison started his Classic...
Engels | 4 uur 43 minuten (204 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads The Canterville Ghost
B.J. Harrison breathes life into one of Oscar Wilde’s first short stories, "The Canterville Ghost". The American Hiram B. Otis and his family move to a castle in Canterville Chase in the English countryside. They soon discover that they are not alone in the castle and that the ghost of an old tenant, Sir Simon de Canterville, is with them. Yet the family is not so easily scared, even if the ghost can take many shapes and forms. The short story from the late 19th century mixes humor with the macabre....
Engels | 1 uur 12 minuten (54 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Ambrose Bierce The Parenticide Club
"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for The Devil's Dictionary (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was...
Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Places
Discover some of the most haunted places around England. Whether you believe in the paranormal, or are just looking for a good scare on a dark night, Steven Plant’s travel through England will take you to some of the most famous, and frightening, places in the UK. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover haunted cinemas and encounter ghostly figures in grand estates. This book’s will take to the following locations: Blackpool, Pluckley Village, the Hellfire Caves, Morley Rectory,...
Engels | 2 uur 17 minuten (99 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Pubs and Inns
Discover some of the most haunted pubs and inns around England. Steven Plant will take around the UK, stopping at local establishments that are famous for their unusual guests. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover another side of British pub life, and be taken to the following locations: The Bate Hall (Macclesfield, Cheshire), The Nutshell (Bury St Edmunds), The Miners Arms (Eyams, Peak District), The Viaduct Tavern (London). Steven Plant is a British author of non-fiction....
Engels | 1 uur 39 minuten (72 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Sheridan le Fanu Green Tea
"Green Tea" tells the haunting story of a man plagued by a demonic monkey. The unnamed narrator, a trained surgeon who can’t practice because of the loss of two of his fingers, is organising the papers of his deceased mentor, the famous German physician Dr. Martin Hesselius. In doing so, he stumbles upon a strange case, dating back sixty-four years. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer, known for his ghost and paranormal stories. He studied law at Trinity College in Dublin....
Engels | 1 uur 31 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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G. K. Chesterton The Trees of Pride
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees? Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most prolific English writers of all time. He wrote poems, plays, essays, newspaper...
Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (107 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost
The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1887) is charming and engaging....
Engels | 1 uur 23 minuten (63 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...
Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina Van Tassel. But the morning after the Van Tassel’s harvest party, someone has disappeared... Among the countless adaptions of Irving's gothic Halloween classic, Disney’s animated "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" stands out, as well as Tim Burton’s 1999 "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. ...
Engels | 1 uur 22 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Frances Hodgson Burnett In the Closed Room
One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants’ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... ’In the Closed Room’ (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of...
Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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John Kendrick Bangs Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology, ”Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a satisfyingly creepy and laugh-out-loud funny collection of ghostly encounters. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, humorist and editor of “Life” and “Harper” magazines. Bangs is the creator of the modern Bangsian fantasy, which is the school of fantasy writing...
Engels | 3 uur 4 minuten (140 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Jeanette Winterson Nachtzijde van de rivier
Ons leven is digitaal, openbaar en staat altijd aan. We volgen onze vrienden en familie overal naartoe. We hebben duizenden jaren aan kennis binnen handbereik. We weten alles over onze wereld. Maar niets over die van hen. Wij zijn veranderd, maar onze spoken niet. Ze hebben zich simpelweg aangepast en ontwikkeld, hebben nieuwe kanalen gevonden om ons te bereiken. Ze leven in onze apps en dolen door de metaverse, net zoals ze in onze huizen en herinneringen rondspoken, steeds op zoek naar nieuwe manieren...
Nederlands | 344 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Pluim, Amsterdam | 2023
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Riley Sager Overleef de nacht
Een jonge vrouw stapt bij een vreemde in de auto naar Ohio. Spreekt hij de waarheid, of is hij een beruchte seriemoordenaar?
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 276 pagina's (ePub2, 4,2 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2022
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Thomas Olde Heuvelt Hex
'Briljant en volstrekt origineel.' Stephen King 'HEX is griezelig, pakkend en origineel.' George R.R. Martin Wie er wordt geboren is gedoemd er tot zijn dood te blijven. Wie er zich vestigt komt er nooit meer weg. Het ogenschijnlijk pittoreske dorpje Beek is in de greep van de Wylerheks, een vrouw uit de zeventiende eeuw met dichtgenaaide mond en ogen. Zwijgend loopt ze door de straten en dringt ze de huizen binnen, nachtenlang staat ze aan je bed. Iedereen weet dat haar ogen nooit mogen worden...
Fictie
Nederlands | 357 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2016
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Lydia Albadoro De magiër
Connor Grant doet onderzoek naar een bedrijf dat geneesmiddelen maakt en raakt verzeild in een complot.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 299 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Kabook, [Westervoort] | 2021
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Lydia Albadoro De dwaas
Ex-rechercheur Connor Grant helpt een vrouw bij het oplossen van een erfenis van een mijn die zij heeft gekregen van haar familie die vervloekt zou zijn.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 299 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Kabook, [Westervoort] | 2021
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Lydia van Houten Het vervloekte huis
Na de zelfmoord van haar man emigreert een vrouw met haar twee kinderen van Amsterdam naar een stadje in Canada; het stadje blijkt een duister geheim te herbergen.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 299 pagina's (ePub2, 4,5 MB) | Kabook Publishing, Westervoort | 2021
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