Vaggeryds bibliotek

The man is addicted to morphine, and can think of nothing but death. Only morphine has made his life barely tolerable. He is in this fragile mental state because of the things that ...

Ulthar is a city in which it is forbidden to kill cats. But it was not always the case – years ago there was an old cotter and his wife who enjoyed trapping and killing the cats of ...

Randolph Carter is not sure what has happened to his closest friend Harley Warren. The two of them decided to visit an old cemetery in a swamp, but something did not go as planned. ...

What is the true American identity? This question, still relevant today, was a core issue in the 19th century art and literature. In "Point of View", Henry James is searching for a ...

'The Tree of Knowledge' tells the story of Morgan Mallow, a tal?ntless sculptor and his friend, Peter Brench. Peter wants to keep his friend's wife and son from discovering Morgan' ...

As with “The Cask of Amontillado”, this story is centred around revenge as the only possible outcome for the insulted protagonist. Disrespect breeds revenge, which tinted with alle ...

One of E. A. Poe’s more horror-oriented stories, “The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar” presents the author’s obsession with death, scientific experiments, and resurrection. Playi ...

Poe’s preference for not naming his narrators is potent once again in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, a story that is trying so hard to appear sane, but fails miserably in the end. With min ...

“The Man of the Crowd” is a story that deals with the influence of the big city upon the ordinary person. Obsessed with categorization, the protagonist feels baffled by his inabili ...

Time and again called one of Poe’s most brutal horror short stories, “Berenice” employs themes similar to Poe’s previous works: death of a beautiful woman, premature burial, and me ...

Often claimed to be among the first modern detective stories written, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” exemplifies Poe’s interest in the workings of the mind when facing cases that ...

A representative of Poe’s tales of the sea, “Ms. Found in a Bottle” follows the writer’s infatuation with the horrific and unknown forces around us. An avid reader just like his cr ...

Teeming with melancholy and vampirism, verging on the sanity’s uttermost rim, Poe’s characters often fall victims to supernatural happenings. Men wishing for their wife’s deaths, d ...

It is almost impossible to escape the Spanish Inquisition alive. However, Edgar Allan Poe’s unnamed narrator, after suffering innumerable tortures upon his body and soul in the han ...

What is hope? Hope shines through the fairy tales selected for this collection. Let Hans Christian Andersen enchant you and let your favourite characters teach you about what hope ...

What is courage? What does it take to be brave? How does courage show? Follow Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved characters on their adventures and discover what courage means to th ...

What is truth? What better way to learn about the topic of truth than through the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen? The storyline of these fairy tales offers a wonderful plat ...

Sommaren 1994 reser Olov Svedelid till S:t Petersburg, där han av vänner rekommenderas att ta in på Grand Hotel Europe. Tanken är att han under sin resa ska samla information och ...

Tjugofem noveller är en novellsamling av Ivar Björklind, präglad av arbetarlitteraturens kännetecken. Björklind blandar humor och allvar när han skildrar vardagen så som den såg ut ...

Skenet bedrar och allt vi ger ut får vi tillbaka. För karaktärerna i denna samling kunde påståendena inte vara mer sanna. Det blir obehagliga påminnelser från det förflutna, händel ...

Saker och ting kan verkligen ställas på sina spetsar när den vardagliga omgivningen byts ut - som att man plötsligt ser hela sitt liv från ett nytt perspektiv. Är det såhär tillvar ...

Kärlek, brinnande lust, hjärtesorg och svartsjuka. Med sitt genomgående relationstema är 'Älskaren' en novellsamling som med stor träffsäkerhet skildrar det mänskliga känslolivet. ...

"Människan dör bitvis, hade någon sagt en gång."Hur länge har man egentligen rätt att sörja? Hur går det till när ett barn inser att det en vacker dag ska dö? Vad är egentligen mer ...

Bodil kämpar med att få tillvaron att gå ihop. Hennes son är svårt sjukt, de bor i ett hus som sakta men säkert förfaller allt mer, det finns ingen tid att ta hand om den vildvuxna ...

För ovanlighetens skull satt han inte ensam vid sitt bord på Solvalla travbana. Plötsligt stod en journalist framför honom och bad om att få intervjua honom. "Varför spelar ni, vad ...