E-böcker / Noveller
The Hound
There are graves that should have never been opened... The narrator and his friend learn this only after they have robbed several graves and started an exhibition on the artifacts ...
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
More than 10 000 years ago something terrible happened in the land of Mnar. Shepherd people built a new city called Sarnath. But the land they took to themselves was not uninhabite ...
The Mudfog Papers
"The total number of legs belonging to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number of chair and stool ...
Three Deaths
"She would not hear a word. She has made her plans for living abroad, as if she were well. But if I should tell her what her real condition is, it would kill her.'A sick noblewoman ...
The Model Millionaire
"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed."Hughie, a charming young man with no money, wants to marry a girl named Laura. But Laura’s father is co ...
What the Moon Brings
The narrator has gone out to a garden in the middle of the night. But the garden, under the light of the moon, doesn’t seem like a usual garden. Everything seems a little weird and ...
Under the Pyramids
When Harry Houdini travels all the way to Egypt, he doesn’t know yet that this trip will take him to one of his greatest – and most terrifying – adventures. During the trip he is k ...
The White Ship
Basil Elton is a lighthouse keeper who has followed in his father’s and grandfather's footsteps – all of them have taken care of this very lighthouse. Elton is still fascinated by ...
The Tree
Kalos and Musides are two Greek sculptors who are asked to sculpt statues for a competition. But while they are preparing their statues, something terrible happens – Kalos becomes ...
The Horror at Martin’s Beach
When captain James P. Orne and his crew kill a strange and enormous animal in the sea, they are confused. They have never seen anything like this before – the animal looks like a g ...
The Festival
It is the time to celebrate Yuletide – a festival that ancient Germanic people celebrated during the darkest times of the year. A man returns to his home town to share this special ...
Sketches by Boz
"Minerva House ... was ‘a finishing establishment for young ladies,’ where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything an ...
Two Hussars
"He is a regular dare-devil, you know: a gambler, a duellist, a seducer, but a jewel of an hussar - a real jewel."A handsome young hussar rides through a small town, seduces a youn ...
Recollections of a scorer
"Everybody knows it's our business to score. You don't get a chance to get a bite of any thing, and you don't get to bed till two o'clock o' nights, but you're always being screame ...
An Editor's Tales
'An Editor's Tales' describes a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tale ...
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 ( ...
Scener från hovet
Två bröder växer upp i en sverigefinsk familj som älskar monarkin. De fostras att bli kungar, de drillas i överklassens etikett och kultur, deras pojkrum inreds med kopior av riksr ...
Uppbrott
Ibland tar ensamheten över och längtan blir för stark. I sådana stunder kan man råka hamna i situationer man egentligen borde undvika. Relationer som är dödsdömda redan från början ...
Styva linan
Sonja hade inte räknat med ett vittne till olyckan. Det där som utspelade sig på Skansen, mellan Lasse och den stackars galna isbjörnen, det vill hon helst att alla ska glömma. Men ...
Körverk
Ett kärleksprojekt. En storm, en viskning och ett skrik: Alla har gett allt och lite till. Om man heter Barbro Lindgren, Bob Hansson, Sara Schwardt, Suzanne Osten eller Zara Ragnva ...
Sorgeliga saker hända
En spelskuld, en begravning och ett knapphändigt arv. Det är tuffa tider för Arne när det plötsligt dyker upp en man som utger sig för att vara hans halvbror. Kan det verkligen var ...
Nocturne
Att förlora någon man älskar är en svår sak. Att förlora dem efter ett onödigt gräl är ännu värre. Edvin och Astrid Andersson hade förstås ingen aning om att det skulle sluta på de ...
Tomtar på loftet
Vad är det egentligen för konstigheter som pågår i Evas torp? Vad är det hon gömmer? Ingen vet - allra minst författaren själv. Kombinationen deadline, skrivkramp och julfirande är ...
Kvitt eller dubbelt
Vad händer med den unga detektiven från Neapel som reser till Italien för att ta reda på vem som dödade borgmästaren? Och den pretentiösa skolpojken som upptäcker hur hans far egen ...
Skurkar, skrönor och andra rövarhistorier
"Skurkar, skrönor och rövarhistorier" är mästerförfattaren Jeffrey Archers femte novellsamling. Under sitt två år långa fängelsestraff inspirerades Jeffrey Archer att skriva korta ...