Christopher Golden Ararat

Een pas verloofd stel beklimt de berg Ararat in Turkije en ontdekt een enorme grot met daarin de vermeende ark van Noach. Ze roepen de hulp in van een team wetenschappers en vinden een lijk met vreemde hoorns. Als ze ingesneeuwd raken, blijkt dat ze niet alleen zijn.

Fictie

Nederlands | 350 pagina's | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2024

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Sarah Flannery Murphy Onder de huid

Een eenzame vrouw werkt in een instituut voor rouwverwerking als een soort medium tussen mensen en hun overleden dierbaren, maar dan raakt het instituut betrokken bij een moordonderzoek.

Fictie

Nederlands | 334 pagina's | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2018

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Oscar Wilde Het spook van Canterville

Een zeer Brits spook raakt uit zijn doen als de nieuwe Amerikaanse kasteelbewoners onbevangen op hem reageren.

Fictie

Nederlands | 66 pagina's | Astoria Uitgeverij, Benthuizen | 2021

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Laura Purcell The silent companions

Een jonge weduwe gaat naar het verlaten landgoed van haar overleden man, maar het verleden en de vroegere bewoners van het huis laten haar niet met rust.

Fictie

Engels | 364 pagina's | Raven Books, London | 2018

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Robert E. Howard Red Shadows

First published in Weird Tales, August 1928, alternatively titled 'Solomon Kane'. This was the first Solomon Kane story ever published. In France, Kane finds a girl attacked by a gang of brigands led by a villain known as Le Loup. As she dies in his arms, Kane determines to avenge her death, and the trail leads from France to Africa, ending with Kane's first meeting with N'Longa. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author of a wide range of genres. He created the pulp fiction hero...

Engels | 1 uur 2 minuten (48 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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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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Robert E. Howard Red Nails

Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudo historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars...

Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 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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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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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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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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Tamara Geraeds Echo

Een ongewenst kind wordt door haar moeder wreed mishandeld. Ze ontsnapt, maar doet hetzelfde met haar eigen dochters.

Fictie

Nederlands | 280 pagina's (ePub2, 4,3 MB) | Kabook, [Westervoort] | 2017

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Stephen King | Owen King Schone slaapsters

Een geheimzinnige ziekte treft alle vrouwen ter wereld waardoor ze in slaap vallen en niet meer wakker worden.

Fictie

Nederlands | ePub2 | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2017

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Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Svenska Ljud Classica

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 | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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