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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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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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Herman Melville Typee
The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote `Typee‘ (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Engels | 11 uur 35 minuten (539 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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Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur‘s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he remembers having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution and he astonishes the court by predicting the phenomenon. Hank is made minister to the ineffectual king and in an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom,...
Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven" (1886), "For The Temple" (1888), "Under Drake's Flag" (1883) and "In Freedom's Cause" (1885)....
Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (398 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, and Watson soon finds himself pulled into an alluring world of crime solving adventures. Told partly through Watson, partly through the murderer, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887) is Arthur Conan Doyle’s first dip into the world of Sherlock Holmes, and one that would make him world famous. This first Holmes novel became the...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. A. Henty The Dragon and the Raven
The vikings have invaded England. King Alfred and a young thane knight, Edmund, must fight to save his lands. Artfully blending fiction and the history of this volatile time in England, “The Dragon and the Raven” is an entertaining, romantic, and a fun adventure from G. A. Henty, whose stories were known for their historical accuracy. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include “The Dragon & The Raven”...
Engels | 7 uur 17 minuten (336 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Anna Katharine Green That Affair Next Door
The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworth’s female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses through small talk proves invaluable to the investigation. In fact, she outsmarts all the professional men. ‘That Affair Next Door’ (1897) is Anna Katharine...
Engels | 11 uur 3 minuten (518 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published...
Engels | 11 uur 13 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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John Connolly The nameless ones
Louis en Angel treffen in een Amsterdams grachtenpand het gekruizigde levensloze lichaam van De Jaager aan dat omringt is door zijn eveneens dode vrienden. Zij gaan jacht maken op de daders.
Engels | 388 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2021
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Chris Whitaker We begin at the end
De 13-jarige Duchess Radley zet in haar pogingen haar moeder te beschermen tegen slechte mannen een reeks dramatische gebeurtenissen in beweging die ze niet meer onder controle heeft.
Fictie
Engels | 458 pagina's | ZAFFRE, London | 2020
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Lucy Foley The hunting party
Een groep dertigers viert elk jaar samen de jaarwisseling op telkens een andere locatie. Dit jaar is de keus gevallen op een jachtverblijf in de Schotse Hooglanden, waar zij al snel ingesneeuwd raken en één van hen dood wordt aangetroffen.
Fictie
Engels | 390 pagina's | HarperCollinsPublishers, London | 2019
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Miss Bala
Wanneer de Mexicaans-Amerikaanse Gloria op bezoek is bij haar beste vriendin in de Mexicaanse grensplaats Tijuana raakt ze betrokken in de strijd tussen de CIA, de DEA en een Mexicaans drugskartel.
Fictie
Film
Jenny Blackhurst Someone is lying
Een anonieme podcaster onthult de geheimen van de inwoners van een rijke buurt, inclusief die van een moordenaar.
Fictie
Engels | 322 pagina's | Headline, London | 2019
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James A. McLaughlin Bearskin
Op de vlucht voor huurmoordenaars van een Mexicaans drugskartel duikt Rice Moore onder als beheerder van een afgelegen privéreservaat in de Amerikaanse Appalachen, één van de oudste berggebeiden ter wereld.
Fictie
Engels | 343 pagina's | ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York | 2018
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Kerry Drewery Final 7
Martha (16) en haar vrienden zijn door de overheid tot terroristen bestempeld. Als hun begeleidster wordt geëxecuteerd, is dat het begin van een tegenbeweging die zelfs door de naaste medewerkers van de premier wordt gesteund. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 445 pagina's | Hot Key Books, London | 2018
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Christopher J. Yates Grist Mill Road
a novel
Een gewelddaad in 1982 heeft 26 jaar later grote gevolgen voor de drie betrokkenen.
Fictie
Engels | 342 pagina's | Picador, New York | 2018
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Michelle Adams My sister
Een gehandicapte vrouw ontdekt het vreselijke geheim waarom zij als kind door haar ouders werd verlaten terwijl haar zus mocht blijven.
Fictie
Engels | 378 pagina's | Headline, London | 2017
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Philip Kerr Prussian blue
a Bernie Gunther thriller
Bernie Gunther weigert iemand te vermoorden en denkt terug aan een zaak in 1939, toen een man was doodgeschoten bij het zomerverblijf van Hitler.
Fictie
Engels | 550 pagina's | Quercus, London | 2017
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Spanning & Thrillers