<p> A short but interesting detective story. Dick Martin plans for an early retirement from the police force seeking a quite life. His final job is to bring in Lew Pheeney, wanted in connection with a bank robbery. When Lew confesses to trying to open a dead man’s tomb, however, Martin has a mystery he must unravel. He races to find the connection between an attractive young librarian, a mad scientist and the vanished heir to a vast fortune, as everyone becomes entangled in a web of fraud, deceit, torture and murder. What dangers did he face in understanding the mystery behind the door with seven locks? Combines a mystery thriller plot with considerable dashes of gothic horror, and just the faintest hint of science fiction.</p>
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The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The original French title refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered. Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation was published as The Hunchback of Notre Dame which became the generally used title in English. The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI.
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<p>HORROR FACTORY: Neue Horror-Geschichten. Deutsche Autoren. Digitale Originalausgaben. Das ganze Spektrum des Phantastischen. Von Gothic bis Dark Fantasy. Vampire, Zombies, Serienmörder und das Grauen, das in der menschlichen Seele wohnt. Erscheint monatlich. Jeder Band in sich abgeschlossen. Altes idyllisches Bauernhaus auf dem Land zu verkaufen. Aber hüten Sie sich vor dem, was im Brunnen auf Sie lauert! Sabine und Robert glauben, das große Los gezogen zu haben, als sie auf den Kreuziger-Hof ziehen. Doch dann passiert Unheimliches: Wer ist die kleine Marie, mit der ihr kleiner Sohn sich unterhält und die nur er sehen kann? Und was hat es mit dem unheimlichen Fliegenmann auf sich? Von wem stammen die Schritte, die Sabine nachts im Haus hört? In ihrer Not wendet sich Sabine an das "Hexenarchiv", einer speziellen Abteilung im ethnologischen Institut Hamburg. Doch das Böse ist bereits erwacht. Und es folgt ihr auf Schritt und Tritt...</p>
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The encounter of two lonely souls in the fascinating context of an imaginary Scottish village is the starting point for a great love story where nothing is like it seems. The main character - Melisande Bruno - is the girl who can’t see rainbows, for she is able to see only in black and white. And her opponent, as well as great love, is Sebastian McLaine, a writer relegated to a wheelchair. <br> Melisande Bruno flees from her past and refuses to accept her diversity: she was born with a particular and rare sight impairment that prevents her from distinguishing colours and her greatest dream would be to see a rainbow. Her new employer is Sebastian McLaine, a famous writer of horror novels, relegated to a wheelchair due to a mysterious car accident. A figure lies in the shadows, ready to feed on other people’s desires... Two solitudes that intertwine; two destinies united by their darkest dreams in which nothing is as it seems. A Gothic novel waiting only to be read... <br> <br> PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
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Magische Plätze, verwunschene Orte, sagenumwobene Inseln: Wolfgang Salomon, intimer Kenner der Lagunenstadt, nimmt die Leser mit auf eine Entdeckungstour ins mystische Venedig: etwa zur geheimnisvollen Insel Poveglia, zum ehemaligen Henkershaus in Cannaregio, in den "Gothic Jungle" von San Giorgio in Alga oder in das verfallene Ospedale mit seinen bizarren Kunstwerken auf dem Lido. Ein Reiseführer für alle, die Venedig und sein mysteriöses Flair lieben, mit ausführlichen Informationen zu den Schauplätzen und ihrer Geschichte sowie Tipps, um sich mit kulinarischen Köstlichkeiten zu verwöhnen.
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The Gothic Trilogy : Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (unabridged versions) in one volume ! Three Classic Gothic Novels in One Book only ! 1) Dracula, 2) Frankenstein, 3) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde --all three classics complete and unabridged versions by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson. 1) Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations. 2) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. At the same time, it is an early example of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story because, in contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays. 3) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil.
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<p>HORROR FACTORY: Neue Horror-Geschichten. Deutsche Autoren. Digitale Originalausgaben. Das ganze Spektrum des Phantastischen. Von Gothic bis Dark Fantasy. Vampire, Zombies, Serienmörder und das Grauen, das in der menschlichen Seele wohnt. Erscheint monatlich. Jeder Band in sich abgeschlossen. Vier Millionäre aus den USA sind Mitglieder eines elitären Jagdclubs in New York. Sie haben in ihrem Leben schon alles gejagt, was sie auf dieser Welt erlegen können. Es scheint nichts mehr zu geben, was ihre Jagdlust noch befriedigen könnte. Bis zu dem Tag als ein unbekannter Doktor im Club auftaucht. Er macht ihnen ein verlockendes Angebot: eine Hatz auf ein Großwild, das keiner der vier Männer je zuvor im Visier hatte. Neugierig begeben sich die Millionäre auf eine Reise mit unbekanntem Ziel. Zu ihrem Erstaunen landen sie in Deutschland. Dort führt sie der Doktor zu einem im Wald versteckt liegenden Bunker, in dem während des Zweiten Weltkriegs abscheuliche wissenschaftliche Experimente praktiziert wurden. Langsam dämmert es den Jägern: Diesmal werden sie kein gewöhnliches Wild jagen... Nächste Folge: "Spielplatz des Bösen" von Diana Dark am 14.08.2014.</p>
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