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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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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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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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Ronald van Assen Sluimerend kwaad

33 verhalen over het kwaad in de mens, gewelddadige verhalen waarin veel bloed vloeit.

Fictie

Nederlands | 309 pagina's | Godijn Publishing, [Hoorn] | 2021

Gedrukt boek
Anna Mattaar | Antoni Dol | Marieke Frankema | Heleen van den Hooven | Mariëlle Douma | Robin Rozendal | Tom Kruijsen Werelden ontwaken

zeven verhalen van Nederlandse auteurs waarin nieuwe werelden voor je opengaan

Bundeling van zeven verhalen die zich gedeeltelijk afspelen in een fantasiewereld.

Fictie

Nederlands | 333 pagina's | IO, independent publisher, Amsterdam | 2022

Gedrukt boek
Theo-Henk Streng Doodeng

horrorbundel

Bundeling van horrorverhalen waarin horrorclowns, eeuwenoude vampiers, weervolven, weerwolfjagers en de verpersoonlijking van het alleroudste kwaad centraal staan. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Nederlands | 308 pagina's (ePub3, 2,1 MB) | Godijn Publishing, [Hoorn nh] | 2023

E-book
Winchester McFly Contact

Rechercheurs David Detta en Tess de Winter onderzoeken vreemde zelfmoordgevallen in de Achterhoek.

Fictie

Nederlands | 154 pagina's (ePub2, 7,5 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2022

E-book
Ronald van Assen Sluimerend kwaad

Verhalen over het (sluimerend) kwaad in de mens.

Fictie

Nederlands | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Godijn Publishing, Hoorn nh | 2021

E-book
Winchester McFly Verdwaald

Als in de Limburgse mergelgrotten verminkte lichamen worden gevonden, onderzoeken rechercheur Detta en zijn partner De Winter of dit het werk is van een monster of van iemand die de mythe van het monster in stand wil houden.

Fictie

Nederlands | 176 pagina's (ePub2, 7,5 MB) | Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2021

E-book
Vertrapte bloem

‘Vertrapte bloem’ is het eerste boek in de tweedelige Lente-serie van Virginia Andrews. Jordan March woont met haar ouders en broertje in het enorme landhuis van haar oma. Ze doet erg haar best om aan de hoge eisen van oma Emma te voldoen. Maar wanneer Jordan te vroeg het lichaam van een jonge vrouw begint te krijgen, doet dat haar ouders en oma vrezen dat hun angstvallig verborgen familiegeschiedenis zich zal herhalen… Jordan voelt zich niet langer thuis en ze schaamt zich voor haar vrouwelijke...

Fictie

Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021

E-book
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...

Fictie

Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021

E-book
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...

Fictie

Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2021

E-book