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- A family of flag-flaunting United States acquire an historic English mansion from the thoroughly prim, thoroughly British Lord Canterville. Throw in a murderous, aesthetically-minded ghost with a penchant for high drama and theater, and you have a classic, joy-inducing tale of clashing cultures, progress vs. tradition, and Wilde’s self-mockery of his own philosophy of decadent aestheticism. Wilde emphasized...
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- The large, sumptuous room, with its dim oriental rugs and subdued lighting, a fine set of Indian paintings, and two exquisite rose-red lacquered cabinets, had great charm. The main character has just returned from China. Huge packing boxes, stacked one above the other in the hall, were no doubt full of wonderful acquisitions, china, embroideries, carpets. But he didn’t seem to want to unpack them.
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- Były funkcjonariusz policji, a obecnie prawnik, Maks Werben trafia do aresztu. Zostaje oskarżony o zamordowanie czterech kobiet. Wszystkie ofiary łączy fizyczne podobieństwo. Seryjny morderca zostawia w ustach zabitych krówkę mordoklejkę. W jednym z cukierków znaleziono włos Werbena. Choć adwokat podczas trzech z czterech zabójstw przebywał w szpitalu, jest głównym podejrzanym. Trwają wielogodzinne...
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- Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film „King Kong”, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. „The Ghost of Down Hill” is an entertaining mystery novella, based on the idea that a ghost of a monk haunts a house built on top of former holy ground. This novella has upbeat tone and surprising outcome....
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- Pigeons from Hell is a short story by Robert E. Howard written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard’s grandmother’s ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.
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- ”The Clue of the Dead Hand” novela features detective Peter Brodie and has a Scottish setting. It tells of a murder and a simultaneous mysterious disappearance at Corbie Hall, „a strange, weird sort of place...” that has „an eeriness about it... calculated to make one shudder.” As much a rationalized ghost story as a detective story, it also involves male impersonation.
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- Zbrodnia doskonała nie istnieje, nawet jeśli udało się pozbyć ciała. Topielec próbujący odegrać się z zaświatów na zdradzieckim bracie. Staruszek, który wziął ze sobą do grobu tajemnicę dotyczącą relacji miłosnej swojego syna. Czaszka zamordowanej żony mszcząca się na mężu i przyjacielu, który zainspirował go do zbrodni. Opowieści grozy chwalone przez samego M.R. Jamesa i H.P. Lovecrafta podejmują...
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- „Green Ginger” is one of the humorous story from mixed collection of sixteen short stories by the author of the Martin Hewitt, Investigator series. Collects several mysteries, including a „Cunning Murrell” tale, also „The Seller of Hate”, a deal-with-the-Devil story, and „The Chamber of Light”, a humorous ghost story of psychic investigator driving the poor spectres to distraction. The stories are...
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- The motive in the case of murder – this is the first thing that draws the attention of the police. No one except a madman commits murder for no reason. Passion, hatred, money – as soon as the motive is established, it, as a rule, unmistakably points to someone. That is why Pender took the club with Sinclair’s arm and walked with him part of the way to his house on Brook Street. A very normal phenomenon...
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- A collection of nineteen stories, by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, mostly from the 1890’s and early 1900’s, published in magazines, and collected in 1913. Ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange appearances and disappearances, and improbable love are the themes of these very enjoyable stories by the master storyteller. Young men courting women, psychic phenomena, and humorous characters abound. „Those...
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- Originally published in 1913, „The Great Impersonation” is probably the most famous spy novel of all time. This tale is full of murder, crime, confused identity, blackmail, war, romance, politics, and there’s even a ghost... In 1913, a German spy assumes a dead Englishman’s identity and infiltrates British society as a sleeper agent, but when he falls in love with the Englishman’s wife and his Hungarian...
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- Several employees on a nobleman’s estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. However, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden. Who the Black Abbott is, what his purpose is – and how he is connected with the mystery of the treasure – these are the elements of the story. There’s a malevolent...
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- A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and with more than one ghost and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman... „The Valley of Ghosts”, written as one of four detective novels in 1922, is set in the seemingly peaceful community Beverly Green, a place where upper-middle-class families live a secluded life. Why was Stella Nelson with the victim in the middle of the...
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- Another rip-roaring tale from Edgar Wallace, „The Green Archer” features a beautiful girl looking for the mother from whom she was stolen as a baby, her kindly foster-father, a redheaded journalist, a very secret policeman who is also a master of disguise, an Anglo-Indian petty criminal and his wife, assorted villains and, at the center of it all, Abel Bellamy, a very ugly, very rich man who’s bought...
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- Horror ma wiele obliczy. Mogą one wzbudzić niepokój, lęk, obrzydzenie, zdziwienie, nierzadko mogą też rozbawić. Niniejsza książka to niezwykle bogaty przekrój konwencji grozy. Zawiera premierowe opowiadania najbardziej znanych polskich autorów gatunku, takich jak Dawid Kain, Krzysztof Maciejewski, Robert Cichowlas, Łukasz Radecki (i wielu innych!), którzy udowadniają, że żadna twarz horroru nie jest...
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- „Max Carrados Mysteries” is a collection of Bramah’s classic detective tales containing „The Secret of Headlam Height”, „The Mystery of The Vanished Petition Crown” and many other stories. Carrados is a cerebral detective, solving the crimes with facts, information and his advanced senses, which over-compensate for his blindness. In „The Coin of Dionysius” we first meet the suave sleuth Max Carrados...
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- Delightful collection of mysteries of the first blind detective. In 1914, Ernest Bramah published his first collection of Carrados stories, „Max Carrados”. Max Carrados is a detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observations skills of his butler to fill in for any deficiency of his own. He is a cerebral detective, solving the crimes...
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- Poznań pod zaborem pruskim, 1913 rok. W mieście panuje strach przed zbliżającym się nieuchronnie konfliktem zbrojnym; strach przed wojną, która ma być ostatnią. W tej atmosferze dochodzi do okrutnej zbrodni - ktoś zabija i brutalnie okalecza nastoletnią dziewczynkę, po czym porzuca jej zwłoki na Wasserstrasse. Śledztwo przydzielone zostaje komisarzowi Heinrichowi Windelbandowi z poznańskiej Kriminalpolizei....
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