horror
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The Dunwich Horror – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. There are six short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. The story started of well and gave us a spooky small village setting with the odd family of a Grandfather, deformed Albino mother and inhuman grandson and the strange events surrounding his birth...Data dostępności:
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The Grisly Horror – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The silence of the pine woods lay like a brooding cloak about the soul of Bristol McGrath. The black shadows seemed fixed, immovable as the weight of superstition that overhung this forgotten back-country. Vague ancestral dreads stirred at the back of McGrath’s mind; for he was born in the pine woods, and sixteen years of roaming about the world had not erased their shadows.Data dostępności:
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Philippa East
Mijają trzy miesiące, odkąd Sarah nie płaci czynszu. Zarządzająca nieruchomością Jenn wchodzi do małego londyńskiego mieszkania, gdzie gra radio, a na małym stole jadalnym stoją nakrycia dla trzech osób. I rozkładające się ciało zwinięte na kanapie… Jak to możliwe, że minął prawie rok, zanim ktoś je znalazł? Kto płacił jej czynsz? Kogo ofiara oczekiwała na obiedzie w noc śmierci? Jenn jest zdeterminowana,...Data dostępności:
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Philippa East
Mijają trzy miesiące, odkąd Sarah nie płaci czynszu. Zarządzająca nieruchomością Jenn wchodzi do małego londyńskiego mieszkania, gdzie gra radio, a na małym stole jadalnym stoją nakrycia dla trzech osób. I rozkładające się ciało zwinięte na kanapie… Jak to możliwe, że minął prawie rok, zanim ktoś je znalazł? Kto płacił jej czynsz? Kogo ofiara oczekiwała na obiedzie w noc śmierci? Jenn jest zdeterminowana,...Data dostępności:
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The Three Hostages – ebook
John Buchan
The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, asking him to help track down three missing persons, taken so that the villain can, as well as furthering his craze for crime and stopping his activities being investigated, obtain complete mental control...Data dostępności:
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A Silent Witness – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
All the Dr. Thorndyke books are outstanding. This one is no exception. In this installment, the action centers on one Dr. Humphrey Jardine, who is the narrator of the story, and who himself is the focus of several strange events. Jardine’s troubles begin with a casual walk, where he comes across the body of a man and runs to fetch the police, only to come back and find that the dead man has disappeared....Data dostępności:
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Death at the Inn – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillum’s...Data dostępności:
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Mr. Polton Explains – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
R. Austin Freeman’s character Dr. Thorndyke is considered the first modern forensic scientist in literature. This is one of the oddities of detective fiction. The first part of this story is an „autobiography” of Thorrndyke’s lab assistant Polton. Polton, Dr. Thorndyke’s lab assistant and a servant has graced every Thorndyke mystery with his mechanical ingenuity, his sumptuous meals and teas, and his...Data dostępności:
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The Golden Pool – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests...Data dostępności:
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Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich American gentleman has come to London to make a claim for an earldom, based on some far-fetched „evidence.” His lawyers seem particularly unsavory. And there’s been a daring robbery of precious platinum, with...Data dostępności:
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