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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...

Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...

Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter

'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...

Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Ate Grypstra It beest fan de Westereen

Wikipedia: It boek is in thriller, miskien sels wol in horrorboek. It genre wurdt ek beneidrukt troch de sin dy't foaryn it boek stiet: "Troch Steven Kingma, besoarge troch Ate Grypstra". Steven Kingma stiet dêryn foar Stephen King. It ferhaal spilet him ôf yn de jierren tachtich, yn dy tiid ûntdekt in professor in manuskript, dat er graach útjaan wol. Omdat Grypstra keazen hat om it ferhaal him ôf spylje te litten yn it doarpke De Westereen, is it boek ek skreaun yn it Westereendersk. Sitaat:...

Westerlauwers Fries | 5 uur 7 minuten (197 MB) | Audiofrysk, Easterwierrum | 2019

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Kate Ryder Beneath Cornish Skies

To an outsider, Cassandra Shaw's life looks perfect. She lives in a beautiful, luxurious house in the English countryside, with a handsome, wealthy boyfriend who insists she needn't do a day's work in her life. But Cassie knows that something is not right. Her boyfriend has grown colder, treating her more like a housekeeper than a future wife. And her time feels empty and purposeless. Cassandra has always been riddled with insecurities and self-doubt, but, just for once, she decides to take a chance...

Engels | 10 uur 35 minuten (465 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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H. G. Wells H. G. Wells Top Stories

Delve into the works of the visionary author H.G. Wells with this captivating collection of his hidden gems. From the depths of his imaginative mind, these lesser-explored short stories showcase Wells' unparalleled storytelling prowess and offer a fresh perspective on his literary brilliance. From "The Valley of Spiders" and "The Magic Shop" to "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost", prepare to be enthralled as you uncover the hidden treasures of one of the greatest literary masters in history....

Engels | 3 uur 12 minuten (139 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. IV

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Outsider", "The Festival", "The Green Meadow", "He" and "Till...

Engels | 2 uur 16 minuten (100 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. III

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains six of his short stories: "Dagon", "The Tree", "The Evil Clergyman", "The Very Old Folk",...

Engels | 1 uur 57 minuten (86 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. I

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Horror at Martin’s Beach", "The Nameless City", "The Ghost...

Engels | 2 uur 14 minuten (98 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. V

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Hypnos", "The Temple", "Nyarlathotep", "Unnamable" and "The Disinterment"....

Engels | 2 uur 25 minuten (106 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. II

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Ashes", "The Hound", "Two Black Bottles", "The Tree on the Hill"...

Engels | 2 uur 22 minuten (104 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. VI

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with sparse, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "From Beyond", "Cold Air", "The Moon-Bog", "The Music of Erich...

Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (99 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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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 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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Henry James B.J. Harrison Reads The Turn of the Screw

A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. What are the ghosts doing in the house? Were Peter Quint and Miss Jessel murdered? Are they seek revenge? Will the governess...

Engels | 4 uur 36 minuten (203 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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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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Stefan Lear Accidental Wizard

Evil is a constant, not a concept, and Evil won't stop until Paul Logan is destroyed. When his girlfriend is violently murdered by a hound of hell, Paul Logan discovers he can wield magic. Since then, not everything is what it seems. In fact, nothing is as it seems. With the help of a mentor, he struggles to learn about his new powers. But when the man who murdered his mother reappears, will he be able to control what happens next? ln a battle filled with blazing guns and formidable magic, Paul attempts...

Engels | 2 uur 25 minuten (105 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Jeff Walker Haunted House on Henry Street

Professor Darkk And Miss Shadow are drawn to a haunted house on an abandoned street. They must enter the eerie home and locate the source of the evil that has taken over this section of suburbia. But can they overcome the many horrors awaiting them? Or will they be the next victims to be slaughtered to death by this nightmare of a home? Jeff Walker is a writer from Ontario, Canada. He is the author of several novels and short stories of the science fiction, fantasy and paranormal genre, including...

Engels | 57 minuten (41 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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