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When an overworked team of government physicists unwittingly invites something catastrophic into the world, rising young New York lawyer Cal Griffin is forced into a strange new role in a world of nightmare and wonder.

After the death of his mentor, an apprentice wizard must fight to escape a world he doesn’t understand. When the wizard Jaldis heard the cry from beyond the Void, telling of a world where magic was dead and begging for his aid, he and his apprentice, Rhion, went to help. Crossing the Void takes all of their strength, and when Rhion awakes on the other side, he learns that the task is beyond them. Jaldis is dead, and the portal home gone with him. Now he is trapped in a place called Earth, in a nation beset from all sides by its enemies. The men who called him here need a wizard to save them, and though Rhion is but a novice, he will have to do.

Sun Wolf knew he had the power of magic, but he needed a master wizard to teach him to fully use his skills. But there was no one who could do the job. When he was called upon to help old friends against the ancient wizard, he did - thus ensuring a curse that would be executed, unless Sun Wolf could harness his own powers and find a way out....

In ancient Rome, a poor philosopher races to rescue his kidnapped lover before she is abused by the sinister Christian cult. The son of a wealthy Roman family, Marcus gave up the prestige and riches that were his birthright to devote himself to philosophy. His noble mind attracted Tullia, a Senator’s daughter whose father wanted her to have nothing to do with the penniless intellectual. The news that she is to marry a prosperous merchant shatters Marcus, who goes to her house, hoping to plead his case, only to see her attacked and abducted by disguised ruffians.

Once, it was said, Wensha had been a city of witches, summoning and controlling demons for their evil magic. But in nearby Tandieras, Kaltha claimed to have found their lost book of spells to perform only white magic. When Sun Wolf arrived, he discovered increasing signs of evil magic and demon-controlling spells. And he realized, too late, that a new swarm of demons was trying to lure him to his death....

Are vampires a bloodthirsty menace to mankind? Or simply misunderstood creatures struggling to survive? After hearing these six entertaining stories, you'll be able to decide for yourself. From the horrifying to the humorous, some of today's finest authors share stories about one of the oldest imagined evils, the vampire. From Tanith Lee's chilling story to Esther Friesner's comic tale of rival teens trying to best one another, these stories bring vampires to (un)life, in all their majesty and terror.

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 9 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Jagd der Vampire" von Barbara Hambly, "Das Schloss des weißen Lindwurms" von Bram Stoker und "Die Spinne" von Hanns Heinz Ewers.

London am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, eine Stadt des Nebels, der Gaslaternen und der Vampire. Seit Jahrhunderten treiben sie in den dunklen Gassen unbehelligt ihr Unwesen. Nun jedoch sehen sie sich einer ernstzunehmenden Gefahr gegenüber. Ein Unbekannter öffnet am Tag ihre Särge und setzt sie dem todbringenden Sonnenlicht aus. Nur einer kann den Blutsaugern noch helfen: der ehemalige Meisterspion Prof. James Asher. Der Vampir Simon Ysidro ersinnt einen perfiden Plan, Asher zu zwingen, ihnen zu helfen.

Paris 1907: Prof. Asher und der Vampir Simon Ysidro sind nach Paris aufgebrochen, um dort nach dem ältesten Vampir Europas zu suchen. Ihre diesbezüglichen Nachforschungen versetzen die französische Meistervampirin Elysée de Montadour und ihre Gespielin nicht gerade in Euphorie.