Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Ghosts

Maddie is restless in London. She has friends, a job and a sort-of boyfriend, but something in her life is missing. Then she visits the ancient village of Walditch, deep in the Dorset countryside. Something stirs in her, and on a whim she buys a centuries-old cottage and moves there three months later. Her friends think she's crazy, but for Maddie it feels like coming home. Late at night in the cottage, Maddie hears strange noises and sees mist gathering indoors and out.

"Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?" The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected weather, old ghost stories are read and new ghost stories imagined. Born by the twin brains of the Shelleys is Frankenstein, one of the most influential tales of horror of all time. In a remote mountain house, high in the French Alps, an author broods on Shelley's creation.

Dans le Massif Vosgien, rien ne va plus... Un mystérieux tueur terrorise la population au quatre coins du département. Dans l'incompréhension la plus totale, les autorités peinent à trouver une piste. Les oreilles et les mains brûlées, les victimes semblent toutes avoir un lien avec la terre et le monde agricole. Selon Rostam Simurgh, éminent professeur d'Histoire aux capacités médiumniques incontrôlées, le tueur aurait déjà sévi au fil des siècles et sur tous les continents.

Launceston, 1665. Il Reverendo Ruddle, dopo aver pronunciato un toccante sermone al funerale del giovane John Elliot, è invitato da un nobiluomo a risolvere le turbe psichiche del figlio, convinto di essere perseguitato da una donna defunta. Inizialmente scettico, l'uomo dovrà poi ricredersi, di fronte alla visione, fatta in prima persona, del fantasma di Dorothy Dingle... Daniel Defoe, pur non considerandosi un credulone, riporta la storia così comi gli è stata raccontata, proponendo anche delle spiegazioni razionali.

Daniel Defoe ha collaborato per anni alla rivista Mist’s Weekly Journal, di cui abbiamo qui il privilegio di leggere alcuni estratti. Da sempre curioso verso l'occulto, l'autore propone, attraverso i suoi articoli, una serie di rocambolesche vicende che hanno per protagonisti degli autentici truffatori, volti a sfruttare l'autosuggestione a proprio vantaggio.

Daniel Defoe, con grande fiuto giornalistico, propone a chi legge un aneddoto inquietante - rimasto inspiegabile - che tratta con la sapiente originalità di un vero scrittore. Un nobile di campagna, costretto per motivi di salute a trascorrere l'estate ai bagni di Aix-la-Chapelle, affida la propria magione a un maggiordomo e a tre servi. Dopo la partenza del padrone, il maggiordomo inizia a ricevere inquietanti messaggi da un'entità sovrannaturale, che lo avverte dell'imminente arrivo di un folto gruppo di briganti

Ein altes Familiengeheimnis. Eine eigenwillige junge Frau. Und eine düstere Sage... An der Nordküste Cornwalls spukt es, wenn man den Küstenbewohnern glaubt. Menschen sind verschwunden, geholt vom fahlen Seemann, der dazu verdammt ist über die Meere zu fahren, bis ihn jemand aus seiner Einsamkeit erlöst. Luna Walker, eine junge Frau aus London, hält nichts von dieser Sagengestalt. Sie hat das Häuschen ihrer Tante geerbt und möchte an der Küste Fuß fassen, sich aus der versnobten Londoner Gesellschaft lösen.

Wolfszeit : un temps pour les Hommes, un temps pour les loups, et seulement vingt-six jours pour stopper un tueur implacable au cœur de la forêt vosgienne. Dans le Massif Vosgien, on ne compte plus le nombre de troupeaux attaqués et d'humains mutilés. Un ancien mal s'est éveillé, provoquant le retour des loups vers leur territoire de jadis. Au village, le vieil Hansi avait prédit que le Meneu reviendrait avec sa Bête ; mais pour beaucoup, le canidé reste le coupable idéal... un fléau à abattre.

"It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... except a clot of blood, creeping up from Ted's leg to his brain, to kill him as he slept..." Recently widowed Philly keeps dreaming of her dead husband Ted – strange dreams of a paranormal alternate reality: why is her new husband Robbie so interested in them? He works for a mysterious genetic research company called Portal Inc. But what exactly is Robbie's job? Did he seduce Philly by feeding her experimental new drugs? Was Ted's death intended? Such suspicions make Philly doubt her own sanity.

Pulp fiction just got a whole lot scarier... Few books ever become loved. Most linger on undead, their sallow pages labyrinths of old, brittle stories and screeds of forgotten knowledge... And other things, besides: Paper-pale forms rustle softly through their leaves. Ink-dark shapes swarming in shadow beneath faded type. And an invitation... Harris delights in collecting the unloved. He wonders if you’d care to donate. A small something for the odd, pale children no-one has seen. An old book, perchance? Neat is sweet; battered is better.

Mardrömmarna vill inte lämna Mirjam ifred. Nyligen var hon en hyllad författare men sen kom sammanbrottet och tillvaron rämnade. Nu kan hon inte kan sluta tänka på dagen när Astor Paléus försvann. Ingen vet att hon var där när det hände. Ingen vet att hon är den mytomspunne författarens barnbarn. I ett försök att gå vidare återvänder Mirjam till sin farfars hus. Hon är trasig och härjad, men fast besluten att skriva en bok om honom och konfrontera sina minnen från sommaren i huset. Men snart känner hon att något är fel.

Engelsmannen Henry Masham är på semester i Italien. Avsikten är att det ska vara avkopplande, men han blir snart utsatt för ett mordförsök. Upplevelsen traumatiserar honom svårt, men han träffar tur nog den trevliga men ytterst excentriske Lord Ruthven. De bestämmer sig för att slå följe och resa vidare tillsammans genom Italien. Sakta men säkert börjar Henry misstänka att det är något som Ruthven inte vill berätta, att hans melankoliska ögon gömmer en hemsk hemlighet.

När ostindiefararen Götheborg år 1745 närmar sig land så händer något oförklarligt. Trots den erfarna lotsen går fartyget på grund och förliser. I ren desperation gör besättningen sitt yttersta för att rädda den dyrbara lasten. Kaoset gör att ingen märker när båten med de svarta seglen försvinner iväg med ett mystiskt bylte. Vad är det de smugglar iland? Två och ett halvt sekel senare får den ockulta detektiven Maphalda besök av en skärrad klient.

Fyra veckor har gått sedan det stora utbrottet, och det värsta tycks vara över. Dammet från blommorna har lagt sig som en mörk skugga över landet, men de smittade utgör inte längre något hot. De har slutat jaga och börjat dö. Men just som Sverige tycker sig se ljuset i tunneln kommer nästa obehagliga överraskning. Plötsligt täcks träden av löv i en nyans ingen sett förut - en onaturlig och intensiv röd.

B.J. Harrison visits Edgar Allan Poe's grim horror story, "The Cask of Amontillado". Montresor is a man who has been insulted, and he does not take this lightly. Seeking revenge on the person who slighted him, Fortunato, he sets out on a terrible mission to even the score. Yet what follows is far from fair, and Fortunato is far from prepared. "The Cask of Amontillado" is a dark short story by Edgar Allan Poe dating back to the 19th century.

"Her arms rested on a table beside her, and her head on her hands; but her face was turned full forward, and her eyes met those of the spectator bewilderingly." One day, a man who has recently enherited his aunt's house, discovers a portait of a woman in the attic. He brings it downstairs and becomes so infatuated by the woman it portrays that he prays she will come to life. By some mysterious power she does, and he learns that the two of them have a daunting history.

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Outsider", "The Festival", "The Green Meadow", "He" and "Till A' the Seas". - H.P.

B.J. Harrison reads one of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short stories "The Masque of the Red Death". Prince Prospero and 1,000 other nobles have taken refuge at a castle-like abbey to escape the Red Death, a horrifying plague that has taken over the land at large. Yet horror finds them one night when Prospero holds a masquerade ball and a guest dressed up as the Red Death itself shows up. The chilling story by Edgar Allan Poe dating back to the 19th century is a Gothic horror tale to its very core, providing frights of the most unimaginable type.

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains six of his short stories: "Dagon", "The Tree", "The Evil Clergyman", "The Very Old Folk", "Pickman's Model" and "Azathoth". H.P.

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Ashes", "The Hound", "Two Black Bottles", "The Tree on the Hill" and "The Statement of Randolph Carter". - H.P.