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The wife of the town drummer gave birth to a child with red hair that everyone called ‘the drummer’s redhead’. Except for his mother, who called him ‘golden treasure’. His father d ...

Do you like Harry Potter but always thought the Dursley house was a little too serene and pleasant? What if Harry also had a bum leg, lived in a slum and Hagrid actually was a filt ...

Maanläheinen aikuisten fantasiaromaani palkkaritarin matkasta. Tien päällä voi löytää monenlaista: yllättäviä ystäviä, yllättävämpiä vihollisia ja lopulta, kenties, itsensä. Kun v ...

Juhani Anvelon on 15-vuotias pojankloppi, joka asuu planetoidilla kaukana avaruudessa. Nuoruusvuosien muutokset kohtelevat häntä kovalla kädellä, kun omituinen myrsky raivoaa hänen ...

Två år av pandemikarantän. Instängd i sin lägenhet. Alice blir galen! Hon står inte ut. I en virtuell värld finns ingen karantän. Oändliga möjligheter. Träffa vem hon vill. Kyssa s ...

Part of the Pennington Wise series of mystery novels from author Carolyn Wells, in ‘The Come Back’ grieving father Benjamin Crane has turned to spiritualism and placed his faith in ...

Mitro Tell herää saarella, jonka hän on saanut Yhteiskunnalta käyttöönsä. Täällä hän voi hengittää vapaammin – aluevalvontalennin lentää saaren yli vain kerran kuukaudessa. Mitro o ...

Did H. G. Wells foresee World War One? Or was he just caught up in the frenzy over the recent invention of flying machines? With "The War in the Air" (1908) the frenzy around aircr ...

The great Roman general, Titus Andronicus, returns home after fighting Rome’s enemies for the last 10 years. He brings along his captives, Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her three son ...

Poe is the master of unreliable narration and deceptive oratory. So, should we believe him when he professes to exonerate the innocent and illuminate the guilty?"Thou Art the Man" ...

Perhaps fitting for a horror short story, the devil is in the details in Poe’s "The Oval Portrait" (1842).A benighted traveller finds shelter in an abandoned mansion in the Apennin ...

When Poe takes us to sea, we get sucked in.In "A Descent into the Maelstrom" (1841) Poe’s narrator recounts his horrific experience when he and his brother’s boat get sucked down i ...

‘The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales’ is a collection of eleven short stories from the much-loved Victorian author, Elizabeth Gaskell. The title story follows the strange and sup ...

Don’t let yourself be fooled by the title..."A Modern Utopia" (1905) is a dystopian, prophetic, and horrific novel proving how Wells always was ahead of his time. Its hybrid charac ...

Is it better to reign in hell than to serve in Heaven?Wells at his thoughtful best, "The Country of the Blind" (1904) is one of his best-known and most-anthologized short stories. ...

What happens when you glimpse into the fourth dimension? You return forever changed as a mirror image. Glimpsing into a parallel world through a science experiment gone wrong, the ...

H. G. Wells wrote so vividly that this collection of short stories might as well have just been released.As the title suggests, this collection includes twelve stories and a final ...

Celebrate the march of progress with this timeless sci-fi classic penned by a Victorian master. "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) depicts a castaway’s adventures on a hellish is ...

SEITSEMÄN ERIKOISTA NOVELLIA! Rämä löytää aarteen. Darul etsii kohtaloaan. O kaipaa täydellisyyttä. Kone. Taateli pohtii inhimillisyyttä. Ruska kaipaa menetettyä. Ja melankoliset ...

MAAILMA ON RAUNIOINA. OLETKO PELAAJA VAI PELINAPPULA? Mimi on jätteenkäsittelijä. Lupaukset työstä ja paremmasta elämästä ovat houkutelleet hänet ja lukemattomat muut köyhät Kiinan ...

As relevant today as ever, ‘The Scarlet Plague’ is Jack London's science fiction novel and a compelling post-apocalyptic dystopia. It has been 60 years since the Red Death nearly w ...

Instead of Instagram-ing her grand tour of Europe, Louisa May Alcott wrote this collection of short stories inspired by it. Whilst not directly about ‘Little Women’ (boo) the stori ...

A sorcerer. Nightmares. Secrets. Not the usual components of a love story but Nikolai Gogol’s short horror story follows the love story of Danilo and Katerina as they deal with the ...

Mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years. So what do you do when an insanely talented hunter and storyteller describes how he just killed one? Thomas Stevens is a skillful ...

För mer en ett sekel sedan, när miljökatastroferna var ett faktum, tog mäktiga män och kvinnor beslut om att bygga ett högteknologiskt samhälle inuti Kupoler. Dessa skulle skydda ...