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Simone Atangana Bekono Zo hoog de zon stond
Als kunstenares Sonny in de zomer naar haar geboortedorp terugkeert om aan een fotoreeks te werken, nodigt basisschoolvriendin Myrthe haar uit om samen op haar ouderlijk huis te passen. In villa In 't huuske, waar ramen met afstandsbedieningen opengaan en een virtuele assistent antwoord geeft op al je vragen, schuilen ze voor de hittegolf die het land teistert. De vraag is of het buiten aangenamer is dan binnen in de huiveringwekkende koelte. Langzaam raakt Sonny de grip op de realiteit kwijt - door...
Nederlands | 2 uur 26 minuten (140 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2022
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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...
Nederlands | 11 uur 46 minuten (678 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2024
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John Kendrick Bangs Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology, ”Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a satisfyingly creepy and laugh-out-loud funny collection of ghostly encounters. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, humorist and editor of “Life” and “Harper” magazines. Bangs is the creator of the modern Bangsian fantasy, which is the school of fantasy writing...
Engels | 3 uur 4 minuten (140 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Een kerstverhaal van Charles Dickens, gelezen door meesterverteller Rein Edzard
Op kerstavond krijgt de vrek Scrooge bezoek van zijn overleden zakenpartner Marley. Hij kondigt drie geesten aan die de oude Scrooge dezelfde nacht nog zullen bezoeken. Zij moeten hem tot inkeer brengen. De bittere Scrooge is zijn hele leven met niets anders bezig geweest dan geld verdienen. Hij veracht andere zaken. Dat geldt zeker voor vriendschap, liefde en de gedachte van het kerstfeest. Ontmoetingen met de geesten van het verleden, heden en de toekomst moeten dat veranderen. Charles Dickens...
Nederlands | 3 uur 29 minuten (165 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2012
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Dean Koontz De stem van de nacht
De stem van de nacht, van Dean Koontz, gaat over het opgroeien van Roy en Colin. Twee jongens die ondanks dat ze elkaars tegenpolen kunnen zijn, tot ieders verbazing ook elkaars beste vrienden zijn. Colin is verlegen en Roy is juist heel populair en kan gemakkelijk meisjes voor zich winnen. Colin is gefascineerd door Roy, die op zijn beurt veel over de dood en geweld praat. Hij begint wel steeds misdadiger gedrag te vertonen, en er komen schimmige voorvallen uit zijn vroegere jeugd aan het licht....
Nederlands | 8 uur 36 minuten (379 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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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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Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads The Canterville Ghost
B.J. Harrison breathes life into one of Oscar Wilde’s first short stories, "The Canterville Ghost". The American Hiram B. Otis and his family move to a castle in Canterville Chase in the English countryside. They soon discover that they are not alone in the castle and that the ghost of an old tenant, Sir Simon de Canterville, is with them. Yet the family is not so easily scared, even if the ghost can take many shapes and forms. The short story from the late 19th century mixes humor with the macabre....
Engels | 1 uur 12 minuten (54 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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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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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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Alexander Lernet-Holenia Baron Bagge
twee novellen
Baron Bagge is het ultieme verhaal over het verlangen naar een niet geleid leven. Het is een klein meesterwerk en een aanrader voor liefhebbers van Rilke, Roth en Zweig. Op een receptie in Wenen in de jaren dertig ontstaat een geschil tussen baron Bagge en een jongeman die hem beschuldigt van betrokkenheid bij de zelfmoord van zijn zus. Het conflict wordt in der minne geschikt, maar Bagge voelt zich desondanks genoodzaakt opheldering te verschaffen en begint een intrigerende geschiedenis te vertellen....
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Nederlands | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Uitgeverij Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2021
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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