Vaggeryds bibliotek

Poe is the master of unreliable narration and deceptive oratory. So, should we believe him when he professes to exonerate the innocent and illuminate the guilty?"Thou Art the Man" ...

Perhaps fitting for a horror short story, the devil is in the details in Poe’s "The Oval Portrait" (1842).A benighted traveller finds shelter in an abandoned mansion in the Apennin ...

When Poe takes us to sea, we get sucked in.In "A Descent into the Maelstrom" (1841) Poe’s narrator recounts his horrific experience when he and his brother’s boat get sucked down i ...

A collection of Stevenson’s first published works, "New Arabian Nights" is divided into two volumes of loosely connected short stories. There is no Scheherazade this time, but Stev ...

‘The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales’ is a collection of eleven short stories from the much-loved Victorian author, Elizabeth Gaskell. The title story follows the strange and sup ...

A superbly crafted psychological chiller with an ending to die for! Let H. G. Wells walk you through the fear and uneasiness that abounds at night in the Red Room in Lorraine Castl ...

Ombord en isbrytare i Arktis hör en sonaroperatör ett märkligt oväsen. Hon inser snart att ljudet kommer från under istäcket. Och att det låter som mänskliga skrik. I Washington mi ...

»En imponerande debut.« Lotta Olsson »Griper långsamt tag i läsaren på samma subtila sätt som Näcken lurar sina offer med vackert fiolspel.« Litteraturmagazinet Unn blickar framåt. ...

An ancestors legacy. The promise of gold. The excitement of adventure. Who could resist? When young heir Francis Morgan receives an offer to hunt for the lost treasure of his ances ...

‘The Sea-Wolf’ is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London.The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a millionaire literary critic who is a survi ...

Likened to Alexandre Dumas’ adventures and romances, this novel follows Otto and Serafina’s relationship as they navigate a web of political intrigues, murder conspiracies, and dec ...

Three students. A deserted house. A witch. This horror novella boasts an abundance of supernatural encounters, dazzling effects, and folktale elements. Included in the cycle ‘Mirgo ...

A sorcerer. Nightmares. Secrets. Not the usual components of a love story but Nikolai Gogol’s short horror story follows the love story of Danilo and Katerina as they deal with the ...

Dukes aren’t meant to be Texas Cowboys. But the Duc de Montevillier is just that. Having made his fortune in silver, he relocates to the leafy London suburb of Kymott Crescent—much ...

‘The Eustace Diamonds’ is the third book in Anthony Trollope’s classic ‘Palliser’ series of novels. The story follows the beautiful but manipulative young Lizzie Eustace and her my ...

First published in 1921, ‘The Profiteers’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim gives an intriguing glimpse into the mood at the start of the roaring twenties. A mysterious thriller revolving a ...

It usually takes somebody already familiar with the piece or its author, or perhaps a bride-to-be who went a little too deep down the Google rabbit hole, to whip up much attention ...

The life of a law clerk at a New York firm is hectic. It can only be made more so by the addition of a murder trial. Alongside his job at Graham & Royce, Lester has a front-row sea ...

Their planned adventure to Yosemite had become all that Gus Lafee and Hazard Van talked about, so it is needless to say that they were devastated to discover that somebody had ‘sco ...

Del 5: Nick Johansson och Klara Pil.Arton miljoner kronor i lösensumma! Annars kommer tjugosjuårige Martin att mista livet. Och polisen får under inga omständigheter blandas in. Me ...

En av Englands största bedragare, Mr Mothenstein, driver en aktiemäklarfirma och lurar småsparare genom massor av fiffiga knep.Men han får snart problem när Blixten börjar intresse ...

Det är 1908 och mästerdetektiven Asbjörn Krag är på en galaföreställning på Nationalteatern i Oslo. På raden framför upptäcker han plötsligt hur en ståtligt klädd gentleman stjäl e ...

Lurendrejaren Burnstid bestämmer sig för att det är dags att arrangera ett nytt fejkat lotteri där det gäller att pricka in vinnarna av en hästkapplöpning. Han skickar ut en miljon ...

Falskspelaren Pony Nelson vet att polisen är ute efter honom. Han har förberett flykten utomlands och firar med sitt gäng på krogen. Då dyker det upp en chans att göra en sista kup ...

Av en slump råkar Anthony se en gråtande ung kvinna komma ut från den ökände procentaren Digles kontor.Han får veta att denne kräver en stor summa pengar som hennes döde pojkvän sk ...