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Juno Dawson The shadow cabinet
Her majesty's royal coven staat onder druk nu een kwaadaardige tovenaar is ontsnapt en er een nieuwe hogepriesteres moet worden gekroond. Blijft de vrede tussen normale mensen en heksen bestaan als het speelveld volledig wordt omgegooid?
Fictie
Engels | 522 pagina's | Harper Voyager, London | 2024
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Shirley Jackson The haunting of Hill House
Vier mensen die elkaar eerder niet kenden, onderzoeken tijdens een zomer of de spookverhalen over een oud huis waar zijn.
Fictie
Engels | 182 pagina's | Penguin Books, New York, New york | 2018
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Thomas Hardy The Withered Arm
Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream, she cannot help but reach out and grab the arm of the woman she wishes she was. As Gertrude's arm begins to wither away in real life and no physician is able to help her, she must turn to a conjurer... Considered one of Hardy's most successful short stories, 'The Withered Arm' is unmissable for those who enjoyed Laura Purcell's ´The Silent...
Engels | 1 uur 4 minuten (47 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2025
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Mona Awad Rouge
a novel
Een emotioneel labiele vrouw van gemengde afkomst is geobsedeerd door schoonheid en komt na de dood van haar perfecte, manzieke moeder terecht in een sinister wellnesscentrum.
Fictie
Engels | 372 pagina's | Scribner, London | 2023
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Gregory Maguire Wicked
the life and times of the wicked witch of the west; a novel
Door de ogen van de Slechte Heks van het Westen lijkt het land van Oz een stuk minder dromerig, maar ook genuanceerder, gevaarlijker en corrupter.
Fictie
Engels | 456 pagina's | William Morrow, New York, NY | 2024
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Max Brooks World War Z
an oral history of the Zombie War
Een VN-medewerker stelt na afloop van een wereldwijde oorlog tegen zombies een verslag op aan de hand van interviews met overlevenden en andere betrokkenen.
Fictie
Engels | 342 pagina's | Duckworth, London | 2019
Gedrukt boek
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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Sheridan le Fanu Carmilla
Laura lives an isolated life with her father, alone in a castle in the Austrian wilderness. When the mysterious Carmilla, a strange and beautiful lady, arrives in the night, no one suspects the supernatural occurrences that follow. But still more unsuspected is the tempestuous romance that blooms between the two young women, and Carmilla’s nightmarish secret. Written 26 years before Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, ‘Carmilla’ is the original vampire novel. Sheridan Le Fanu combines a chilling Gothic atmosphere...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (142 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu
One secret. One cult. One cosmic being. When his uncle dies, it’s up to Francis Wayland Thurston to finally uncover the family secret. For too long, recounts of dreams becoming reality had cast a sombre shadow over the family. And it seems these dreams didn’t die with the uncle. But when Francis discovers hidden notes of a mysterious cult, the truth turns darker than anyone could have ever imagined. A monster is on the rise. But one that is worshipped by those touched by evil, rather than feared....
Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (79 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Leigh Bardugo Hell bent
Alex Stern, die geesten kan zien, wordt ingehuurd om de geheime genootschappen van de universiteit van Yale in de gaten te houden. Wanneer haar mentor in de Hel wordt opgenomen, besluit zij hem terug te halen.
Fictie
Engels | 481 pagina's | Gollancz, London | 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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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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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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Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
When a brilliant doctor's experiment goes wrong, a dangerous pursuit of separating good and evil follows... Tucked away in the dark and murky streets of London, a lawyer finds himself investigating strange incidents between his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the reclusive Edward Hyde. Although seemingly nothing alike, the two are more similar than what meets the eye... This classic tale is perfect for fans of Heather Parry and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was...
Engels | 2 uur 39 minuten (116 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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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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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Kerri Maniscalco Stalking Jack the Ripper
Audrey Rose Wadworth en Thomas Creswell hebben in Londen in 1888 een gemeenschappelijke interesse: het oplossen van de 'White Chapel moorden'; dat ze ook goed met elkaar overweg kunnen is meegenomen.
Fictie
Engels | 392 pagina's | Grand Central Publishing, New York | 2018
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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 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 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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Horror