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Über das sagenhafte Atlantis mit den See-Königtümern und das geheime Alte Reich herrscht ein Geschlecht von Priesterkönigen, das die Naturgewalten - die schöpferischen wie die zerstörerischen - in magischen Kulten bannt. Aus der Nacht der Dämonen brechen die Menschen auf zum strahlenden Tag des Lichts. Doch die Mächte des Bösen lauern darauf, von Neuem entdeckt zu werden...

The Screaming Skull is one of F. Marion Crawford's Uncanny Tales, which was first published, posthumously, in London in 1911 and was issued two weeks later in America as Wandering Ghosts.

Eliza Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. Lady Fortescue reminds the others that, to be fair, Mrs. Budley has no relatives on whom she can call. Gentle Mrs. Budley thinks she has escaped her fate until Sir Philip comes up with a plan. He has heard that the elderly Marquess of Peterhouse is senile, a widower, extremely rich, and unlikely to remember whether Mrs. Budley is a relative. So off Mrs. Budley goes to the bleak castle, where the marquess turns out to be not so old, hardly senile, and in fact quite handsome.

In the war between heaven and hell, a special race of humans with supernatural abilities balances darkness and light. They are known as The Guardians. Jack Bennett comes from a long line of Guardians, but a failing mission and personal losses have left him jaded, bitter, and without room for love in his life. Addison Monroe discovers she is born of a human mother and demon father. Jack finds that a woman whose very nature should repulse him might be his saving grace.

Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer, born in Italy and educated in the USA. He also studied at the universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg. He was a prolific writer in many fields, but it was his novels that were most popular, commanding a large following. His stories of the macabre and supernatural are very highly regarded. Roy Macready reads five of them from Uncanny Tales.

Endlich Sommer! Urlaubszeit ist doch einfach die beste Zeit! Tobi und Flora haben eine Kreuzfahrt in einem Online-Preisausschreiben gewonnen. Beide waren noch nie auf einem solchen Schiff und sind sehr beeindruckt von den riesengroßen Dimensionen. Die vielen Läden, die Freizeitangebote, die Bistros und Cafés bringen sie ins Schwärmen. Aufgeregt gehen Tobi und Flora zum ersten Dinner an Bord, da entdecken sie Herrn Debil und seine Frau Wind-Debil. Zu ihrer Verwunderung sind die Debils in Begleitung von zwei sehr merkwürdigen Gestalten: Cyprinus und Procula vom Orden der Letzten von Atlantis. Diese zwei Atlanteer sind Tobi und Flora von Anfang an sehr unheimlich und sie ahnen nichts Gutes...

L'ascesa e la caduta di Camelot raccontata dalle donne che, insieme a Morgaine, hanno visto il mondo che conoscevano cambiare radicalmente. Fuggita da Avalon dopo aver scoperto le orribili macchinazioni della Dama del Lago, Morgaine è più che mai decisa a non essere una docile marionetta nelle mani di Viviane. Non immagina che il figlio che ha partorito e affidato a sua sorella Morgause diventerà un giorno lo strumento della distruzione del padre.

Pour tous les amateurs d'Outlander ou de Game of Thrones ! Ragnvald de Møre règne désormais sur le comté de Sogn. Les batailles menées au nom du roi Harald de Norvège l'éloignent cependant la plupart du temps de ses terres, ce dont profitent certains de ses proches pour tenter d'affaiblir son pouvoir. Svanhild, sa soeur, mène quant à elle la vie aventureuse dont elle rêvait aux côtés de Solvi, ennemi juré de Ragnvald. Mais cette liberté à un prix.

The story takes place aboard a transatlantic ocean liner. A passenger named Brisbane is puzzled when the steward behaves oddly while taking his luggage to his stateroom, number 105. In the middle of the first night, Brisbane is further perplexed when his roommate suddenly leaps down from the upper berth and runs out of the cabin. In the morning, Brisbane learns that his roommate has gone overboard - and was the fourth consecutive occupant of the same upper berth to do so.

It begins with a rumor, an exciting whisper. Anything to break the tedium of the harem for the shah's eldest daughter. People speak of a man with a face so vile, it would make a hangman faint, but a voice as sweet as an angel's kiss. A master of illusion and stealth. A masked performer known only as Vachon. For once the truth will outshine the tales. On her birthday the shah gifts his eldest daughter, Afsar, a circus. With the circus comes a man who will change everything.

Vissel am Rhein, 1188: Als das Bauernmädchen Lioba einen bewusstlosen jungen Mann im Wald findet, ahnt sie nicht, dass ihr Leben eine entscheidende Wendung nehmen wird. Der Verletzte überlebt, hat aber keinerlei Erinnerung an sein früheres Leben. Thomas, wie er genannt wird, arbeitet von nun an als Tagelöhner auf dem Bauernhof ihrer Eltern. Lioba und er kommen sich näher und spüren eine starke Verbindung, werden aber getrennt, als Thomas zurück zu seiner wahren Identität und Familie findet. Er erfährt, dass er ein Ritter ist, der sich einem Kreuzzug verschrieben hat.

If you love David Sedaris, you'll have to listen to Marion Winik's anything-but-traditional tales of traveling with her cranky family in tow. From lost teenagers and missed connections to overpriced drinks and gambling mishaps, Winik - author of seven memoirs and a Morning Edition commentator on NPR - illuminates the unexpected pleasures of journeying out of your comfort zone.

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Personne ne connaît vraiment Vanda, cette fille un peu paumée qui vit seule avec son fils Noé dans un cabanon au bord de l'eau, en marge de la ville. Une dizaine d'année plus tôt elle se rêvait artiste, mais elle est devenue femme de ménage en hôpital psychiatrique. Entre Vanda et son gamin de six ans, qu'elle protège comme une louve, couve un amour fou qui exclut tout compromis.

The brooding banker and the Amazing Miss Mischka! Banker Mathew Bond is more used to boardroom antics than circus ones. The king of emotional detachment wouldn't normally foreclose on a loan in person, but Sparkles Circus meant a lot to him once Big mistake! Because feisty Allie (aka the Amazing Mischka) has more acumen than her pink-spangled bodysuit suggests. She won't allow a man in a suit to evict her family, no matter how gorgeous he is! Yet underneath the cold exterior, Allie's about to discover this brooding billionaire's heart of gold....

A spine-chilling collection of creepy, unsettling and unnerving stories. 'If You See Her Face' by B. M. Croker. 'The Ghost at the Blue Dragon' by William J. Wintle. 'The Shadows' by Henry S. Whitehead. 'The Grey Cat' by Barry Pain. 'The Yellow Globe' by Alexander W. Drake. 'The Devil of the Marsh' by H. B. Marriott-Watson. 'The Spectre Spiders' by William J. Wintle. 'The Curious Vehicle' by Alexander W. Drake. 'Number Ninety' by B. M. Croker. 'The Black Cat' by William J. Wintle. 'The Permanent Stiletto' by W. C. Morrow. 'Passing of a God' by Henry S. Whitehead. 'The Chamber of Doom' by William J. Wintle. 'The White Cat' by Hugh Walpole. 'The Loosened Cord' by Alexander W. Drake. 'Mrs. Brassington-Claypott's Children's Party' by F. Anstey. 'The Inmate of the Dungeon' by W. C. Morrow. 'The Red Rosary' by William J. Wintle. 'Caveat Emptor' by F. Anstey. 'The Former Passengers' by B. M. Croker...and over 20 more unsettling tales.

Das große Finale der bewegenden Familiengeschichte im Köln der Nachkriegsjahre. Von Bestsellerautorin Marion Johanning Herbst 1946: Emma und Kurt verbringen unbeschwerte Wochen in der Villa seiner Eltern. Kurt übernimmt in Abwesenheit seines Bruders, der immer noch vermisst wird, die Geschäfte der Hüffenberger Werke. Sein Vater darf wegen eines Verbots der Briten die Firma nicht mehr leiten und zieht die Fäden im Hintergrund. Emma und Kurt mussten ihm versprechen, ihre Beziehung geheim zu halten, solange Emma noch nicht geschieden ist.

"Oh, es hat geschneit! Gestern war die Stadt noch ganz grau, und jetzt ist sie ganz weiß!", ruft Winterkind freudestrahlend, als sie früh morgens aus dem Haus tritt. Ein Grummeln und Fluchen tönt aus ihrer Manteltasche. Herr Jemineh, ein kleiner, fingerlanger Mann mit Hut ist der Bewohner dieser Tasche und gar nicht erfreut über diesen frühen Weckruf.

First published in 1911, The Screaming Skull, is a charming little tale of murder and revenge from beyond the tomb. The Screaming Skull is a paranormal object, a human skull which per legend speaks, screams, or otherwise haunts its environs. The Screaming Skull haunts the house in which it is closeted in a sealed hatbox.

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