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Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind....

Legendary horror star Vincent Price is at his scarifying best in these two vintage, full-length episodes of Suspense, "radio's outstanding theater of thrills"! You'll hear an all-star line-up of performers, writers, and even announcers when Price appears in famed mystery author Lucille Fletcher's original radio play "Fugue in C Minor" and Thomas Burke's horror classic, "The Hands of Mister Ottermole."

In Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a distinguished writer's holiday from the burdens of his work turns out very differently from what he expected. By means of the story, Mann explores the relationships between disciplined intellect and ungoverned passion, and between decaying age and youthful beauty, against a background that resonates today in a time of pandemics. It was first published in German (as Der Tod in Venedig) in 1912.

Le plus bel héritage de la reine du suspense : la suite de son roman culte, La Maison du guet. Melissa, avocate et podcasteuse à succès, vient d'épouser l'homme qu'elle aime. Il est veuf et père d'une petite Riley. Quelques mois plus tard, alors que Melissa et son frère Mike aident leur mère à s'installer dans les Hamptons, Riley disparaît. Tous deux se lancent à corps perdu dans une course contre la montre pour retrouver la fillette et la sauver du traumatisme qu'ils n'ont jamais surmonté : leur enlèvement, quarante ans plus tôt.

American culture is strange, and it appears even stranger after a hiatus. Cue Everett, back in Chicagoland after living in China. His head is spinning. His father has just died, plus basic reentry to the life he once knew is increasingly taxing and complicated. On top of that, it seems that while he was abroad, everyone Everett cared about dove off the deep end into some particular madness. 

Många känsliga ämnen ryms i denna underhållande miniklassiker av Thomas Burke. Den kinesiske immigranten Chen har kommit till Limelight district i London. Här bor de fattiga och utslagna, däribland en försupen boxare och hans adoptivdotter. Lilla Lucy smyger runt på gatorna, osynlig för alla, tills Chen en dag slås av hennes poetiska uppenbarelse. Broken Blossoms filmatiserades 1919 och rönte stora framgångar, mycket tack vare den uttrycksfulla stumfilmsskådespelaren Lillian Gishs insatser.

London. A candidate for global capital. Centre of an empire. The swift-beating heart of culture. A sprawling metropolis of life’s rich tapestry. And a bewildering Escher cityscape of overlapping and colliding forces. People, streets, buildings interweaving and interchanging. And our eminent writers have the talent and focus to reveal the story that lies beneath the words. 

Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent). An author in the early years of the century who brought his skills of pen and eye to parts of London, specifically the Limehouse district of the East End, and wrote with drive and vigour about the characters he met and the places that he knew.

This collection of the finest short story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Burke, Harry Kemelman, and everyone in between. Edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler, it offers a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.