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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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De gevallen engel
‘De gevallen engel’ is het derde boek in de vijfdelige Casteel-serie van Virginia Andrews. Heaven Casteel is teruggegaan naar haar oude dorp in West-Virginia, waar ze met haar jeugdliefde Logan samenwoont. Als Logan haar ten huwelijk vraagt, is ze dolgelukkig. Eindelijk kan ze haar droom waarmaken om een nieuw, gelukkig leven op te bouwen waar ze is opgegroeid. Maar ook nu valt er niet te ontsnappen aan het verleden, als haar stief-grootvader Tony druk uitoefent op Heaven en Logan om hun bruiloft...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021
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Virginia Andrews Hemel zonder engelen
‘Hemel zonder engelen’ is het eerste boek in de vijfdelige Casteel-serie van Virginia Andrews. West-Virginia, 1965. Heaven is de oudste dochter van het gezin Casteel. Haar vader Luke is na de dood van haar moeder hertrouwd, maar zijn nieuwe huwelijk is niet gelukkig. Als zijn tweede vrouw vertrekt, draait Luke door en besluit zijn kinderen te verkopen. Zo wordt het gezin Casteel wreed uiteengerukt. Heaven komt terecht bij Kitty en Cal, een echtpaar dat zelf geen kinderen heeft kunnen krijgen....
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Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021
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De droom van een engel
‘De droom van een engel’ is het vijfde en laatste boek in de vijfdelige Casteel-serie van Virginia Andrews. Annie is gelukkig en de eerste in vier generaties Casteel-vrouwen die haar leven niet laat bepalen door het verleden. Als ze bij toeval het dagboek vindt van Leigh Casteel, haar grootmoeder, ontdekt ze eindelijk wat ten grondslag lag aan de familiegeheimen die haar familie zo verscheurd hebben… Het is 1950, en de jonge en mooie Leigh is pas twaalf als haar moeder Jillian haar man verlaat...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021
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Een engel voor het paradijs
‘Een engel voor het paradijs’ is het vierde boek in de vijfdelige Casteel-serie van Virginia Andrews. Annie heeft een gelukkige jeugd, met haar moeder Heaven en vader Logan, haar neef Drake die meer als een broer voor haar is, en haar halfbroer Luke. Dat geluk wordt in één klap versplinterd als de familie een auto-ongeluk krijgt, waarna Annie verweesd en gehandicapt achterblijft. Omdat ze niet zelfstandig kan wonen, moet Annie gedwongen intrekken bij Tony, haar stief-overgrootvader. Al snel...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021
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Verwaaide bladeren
‘Verwaaide bladeren’ is het tweede en laatste deel in de Lente-serie van Virginia Andrews. Nadat haar familie op een dramatische wijze uiteengespat is, wordt Jordan March naar oudtante Frances gestuurd, de lang vergeten zus van haar dominante oma Emma. Zij woont in een afgelegen, vervallen boerderij en is de vreemdste persoon die Jordan ooit heeft ontmoet. Waarom heeft haar oma deze onschuldige vrouw altijd verborgen gehouden? Was Frances, net als Jordan, te snel volwassen geworden? In de donkere...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021
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Virginia Andrews De duistere engel
‘De duistere engel’ is het tweede boek in de vijfdelige Casteel-serie van Virginia Andrews. Heaven Casteel lijkt eindelijk het leven te lijden waar ze als jong kind van droomde: dankzij haar rijke grootouders, haar grootmoeder Jillian en haar stief-grootvader Tony, woont ze in een mooi huis, heeft ze alle kleding die ze zich kan wensen, en heeft ze toegang tot de beste scholen. Maar Jillian en Tony hebben haar verboden om contact te zoeken met haar geliefde broers en zussen, dus ondanks alle materialistische...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021
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