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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. 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. 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. 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. P ...

If you visited a paradise, how could return to living in the normal world? That’s the question which haunts Lionel Wallace in H.G. Wells’ "The Door in the Wall". When he was a chil ...

Klondiken kultaryntäys houkuttelee paikalle monenlaisia onnenonkijoita. Toiset heistä ovat paremmin valmistautuneita kuin toiset. Klondiken vaikeat olosuhteet ovat yllätys Carter W ...

Neljätoistavuotias Kustaa lähtee töitä hakemaan, kun herra antaa hänen tehtäväkseen louhia kalliota. Kustaa käsittelee kiviä koko elämänsä, ja kuolemansakin hän tahtoo kohdata sama ...

Uhmaikäinen Siina kärsii nimestään ja horjumattomasta siinamaisuudestaan, joka ei koskaan anna periksi. Karjalasta evakkoon tullutta Liisaa kutsutaan Rasvasilliksi, mutta kun hän k ...

"Minä tulin auton yliajamaksi ja sinä et tehnyt mitään? Siinä vasta paska suojelusenkeli!" Alma Cruz särkee lasikattoja matkallaan bisnesmaailman huipulle, kun hän saa yllättäen ti ...

Asiakkaat saapuvat muotisalonkiin ja toivovat harmaita vaatteita, mutta liikkeen omistaja ei suostu valmistamaan niitä. Harmaata käytetään pelkästä poikkeavuuden pelosta, vaikka vä ...

"Det finns ju så många böcker redan förut, har jag resonerat. Kanske bättre att läsa en, än att skriva en annan. Hur som helst, här föreligger nu en bunt alster av skiftande sort o ...

A selection of wonderful Christmas fairy tales by the beloved author Hans Christian Andersen to enjoy in the cozy winter evenings. Let one of the best-known children’s authors of a ...

The story of Scheherazade, weaving tales to save her life, is as famous as the stories she tells the murderous Sultan, and has been used as a model by dozens of other writers, such ...

Set in Munich, this is a delightful short story from much-loved author Anthony Trollope. Young English bank clerk Herbert Onslow is working for small German banking firm Heine Brot ...

Kosrouschah the Sultan overhears three sisters daydreaming about their future husbands: the eldest wishes to marry the Sultan’s baker so she would never go hungry; the second wishe ...

As the people of Persia celebrate the new year, an Indian stranger arrives at the Sultan’s court, riding a wooden horse. More than just a mechanical marvel, this horse has the powe ...

Before Ali Cogia goes on a pilgrimage to Mecca, he hides a thousand pieces of gold in a jar of olives, and leaves it for safekeeping with a neighbour. But after seven years, the ne ...

Sidi-Nouman is happy with his new wife, Amina, except for one thing: her strange way of eating just a few grains of rice at each meal. One night, hearing her slip out of the house, ...

Baba-Abdalla has worked his whole life to increase the fortune he was born with, and now owns eighty camels. On one of his business trips, he comes across a poor dervish, who revea ...

Haroun-al-Raschid is the Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph of Bagdad – and nearly dying of boredom. Looking for amusement, Haroun and his vizir Giafar (a kinder figure than in ...

Everyone knows the story of Aladdin and the genie of the lamp, thanks to the Disney film adaptations starring Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried in the 1992 animated feature, and ...

What makes for an ideal slave-girl: beauty alone, or intelligence as well? Unfettered by political correctness, King Zinebi decides to settle the question by giving his vizir 10,00 ...

Everyone has imagined the boy or girl of their dreams – but what would happen if they appeared in the middle of the night, and disappeared in the morning? Camaralzaman is prince of ...

Vägar och villstig är en novellsamling av den norske författaren Olav Duun. Samlingen består av Duuns överlägset bästa noveller och är ett stort verk i denna genre i norsk litterat ...

Under uppväxten hade det varit en tradition att besöka farbror några veckor under sommarledigheten och njuta av sol och bad vid medelhavet. Men det var inte bara värmen som lockade ...