• Mary Shelley Frankenstein

  In 1816, te midden van schrijversvrienden in Italië, schreef de negentienjarige Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley het horrorverhaal dat later zou uitgroeien tot de grondsteen van de sciencefiction en een van de bekendste romans aller tijden: Frankenstein. Dit is het verhaal van de excentrieke wetenschapper Victor Frankenstein, die bezeten is van de wens om een levend wezen te scheppen. Uiteindelijk slaagt hij erin, maar de mislukte creatie wil vervolgens zijn maker – en alles waar deze waarde aan hecht...

  Nederlands, 8 uur 25 minuten (jpg, 4,8 MB), LJ Veen Klassiek, Amsterdam, 2020

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• Josh Malerman Bird Box

  De kooi - Open je ogen... en sterf

  Aanvankelijk negeerden de mensen de bizarre getuigenissen op het nieuws. Maar er kwamen er steeds meer en ze kwamen van steeds dichter bij huis. Algauw hoorden we dat het bij ons op straat gebeurde, om de hoek. De televisie ging op zwart, de radio zweeg en het internet viel uit. Telefoons stopten met overgaan. En we konden niet meer naar buiten. Want daar zijn zij. En zij mogen niet gezien worden… Malorie voedt haar kinderen binnen op. Iets anders is ondenkbaar. Nog nooit zijn ze buiten geweest....

  Nederlands, 7 uur 35 minuten (jpg, 2,1 MB), AW Bruna, Amsterdam, 2020

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• Paul Tremblay Overlevingslied

  Overlevingslied is een griezelig horrorverhaal van Paul Tremblay, een van de favoriete schrijvers van Stephen King en winnaar van de Bram Stoker award voor Superior Fiction in 2018. Massachusetts wordt geteisterd door een verraderlijk virus met de symptomen van hondsdolheid en dat wordt verspreid door speeksel. Maar in tegenstelling tot hondsdolheid, heeft deze ongekende ziekte een angstaanjagend korte incubatietijd van een uur. Besmette patiënten worden knettergek en ervaren een drang om zoveel...

  Nederlands, 8 uur 34 minuten (jpg, 3,7 MB), Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam, 2020

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• Gwenda Bond Verwante geesten

  Stranger Things

  De wereld is aan het veranderen en Terry Ives wil meer dan alleen toekijken. Wanneer ze hoort over een overheidsexperiment in het kleine stadje Hawkins, meldt ze zich aan als proefpersoon voor een project met codenaam MKULTRA. Onopvallende busjes, een afgelegen lab in de bossen... en een mysterie dat de jonge, rusteloze Terry wil ontrafelen. Maar achter de muren van het lab - en achter de indringende blik van dr. Martin Brenner - schuilt een complot dat groter is dan Terry had kunnen bedenken. Om...

  Nederlands, 10 uur 32 minuten (jpg, 3,8 MB), The House of Books, Amsterdam, 2019

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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 (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2023

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• H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. II

  This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Ashes", "The Hound", "Two Black Bottles", "The Tree on the Hill"...

  Engels, 2 uur 22 minuten (jpg, 104 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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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 (jpg, 154 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. V

  This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Hypnos", "The Temple", "Nyarlathotep", "Unnamable" and "The Disinterment"....

  Engels, 2 uur 25 minuten (jpg, 106 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. I

  This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Horror at Martin’s Beach", "The Nameless City", "The Ghost...

  Engels, 2 uur 14 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. IV

  This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Outsider", "The Festival", "The Green Meadow", "He" and "Till...

  Engels, 2 uur 16 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. III

  This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains six of his short stories: "Dagon", "The Tree", "The Evil Clergyman", "The Very Old Folk",...

  Engels, 1 uur 57 minuten (jpg, 2,4 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 (jpg, 107 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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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 (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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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 (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. VI

  This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with sparse, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "From Beyond", "Cold Air", "The Moon-Bog", "The Music of Erich...

  Engels, 2 uur 15 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Stefan Lear Accidental Wizard

  Evil is a constant, not a concept, and Evil won't stop until Paul Logan is destroyed. When his girlfriend is violently murdered by a hound of hell, Paul Logan discovers he can wield magic. Since then, not everything is what it seems. In fact, nothing is as it seems. With the help of a mentor, he struggles to learn about his new powers. But when the man who murdered his mother reappears, will he be able to control what happens next? ln a battle filled with blazing guns and formidable magic, Paul attempts...

  Engels, 2 uur 25 minuten (jpg, 105 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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