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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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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Places

Discover some of the most haunted places around England. Whether you believe in the paranormal, or are just looking for a good scare on a dark night, Steven Plant’s travel through England will take you to some of the most famous, and frightening, places in the UK. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover haunted cinemas and encounter ghostly figures in grand estates. This book’s will take to the following locations: Blackpool, Pluckley Village, the Hellfire Caves, Morley Rectory,...

Engels | 2 uur 17 minuten (99 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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Jeff Walker Haunted House on Henry Street

Professor Darkk And Miss Shadow are drawn to a haunted house on an abandoned street. They must enter the eerie home and locate the source of the evil that has taken over this section of suburbia. But can they overcome the many horrors awaiting them? Or will they be the next victims to be slaughtered to death by this nightmare of a home? Jeff Walker is a writer from Ontario, Canada. He is the author of several novels and short stories of the science fiction, fantasy and paranormal genre, including...

Engels | 57 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Pubs and Inns

Discover some of the most haunted pubs and inns around England. Steven Plant will take around the UK, stopping at local establishments that are famous for their unusual guests. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover another side of British pub life, and be taken to the following locations: The Bate Hall (Macclesfield, Cheshire), The Nutshell (Bury St Edmunds), The Miners Arms (Eyams, Peak District), The Viaduct Tavern (London). Steven Plant is a British author of non-fiction....

Engels | 1 uur 39 minuten (72 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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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 (105 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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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 (48 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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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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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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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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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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Ate Grypstra It beest fan de Westereen

Wikipedia: It boek is in thriller, miskien sels wol in horrorboek. It genre wurdt ek beneidrukt troch de sin dy't foaryn it boek stiet: "Troch Steven Kingma, besoarge troch Ate Grypstra". Steven Kingma stiet dêryn foar Stephen King. It ferhaal spilet him ôf yn de jierren tachtich, yn dy tiid ûntdekt in professor in manuskript, dat er graach útjaan wol. Omdat Grypstra keazen hat om it ferhaal him ôf spylje te litten yn it doarpke De Westereen, is it boek ek skreaun yn it Westereendersk. Sitaat:...

Westerlauwers Fries | 5 uur 7 minuten (197 MB) | Audiofrysk, Easterwierrum | 2019

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Edgar Allan Poe | Willem Schoorstra | Aant-Jelle Soepboer | Geart Tigchelaar Fryske horror

Grouwélige ferhalen - Live registraasje

Ferhalen fan de Fryske Horrortoer 2014, organisearre troch útjouwerij Regaad Grins Bernlef, Easterwierrum de Tysker, Bitgummole Ons Huis, Dokkum Zero, Burgum Kiehool. Douwe Kootstra bringt in huveringwekkende stoarje út de Wâlden, dat him oan en by de Goddeleaze Singel ôfspilet, by wat no Noardburgum hyt. Willem Schoorstra skreaun it ferhaal Chill, dêr't it op in horribele wize mis giet. Gjin ferhaal om koart foar in jûntsje stappen te hearren. Aant Jelle Soepboer makke spesjaal foar dizze...

Westerlauwers Fries | 1 uur 41 minuten (95 MB) | Audiofrysk, Easterwierrum | 2014

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