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The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles
The prince of the Black Isles and the inhabitants of his city have suffered under the magical power of his cousin, whom he married not knowing she was an enchantress—until the sult ...
The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished
Perhaps the most intricate of the Arabian Nights, "The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished" begins as a second tale within "The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban", a ...
The Story of the Husband and the Parrot
A jealous husband gives his wife a talking parrot as a gift—but if you remember Gilbert Gottfried as Iago in Disney's animated Aladdin, you'll have an idea what to expect! Now the ...
The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
When a wandering physician named Douban cures a Greek king of his leprosy, he inspires murderous jealousy in the king’s vizir, leading the king to tell a cautionary tale of his own ...
The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs
An old man explains that his two black dogs are really his two brothers, whom he repeatedly saved from poverty. When he married a beautiful woman, however, all his kindnesses were ...
The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind
An old man leads a deer that appears completely tame; stranger still, he claims that it is really his wife. Nor is she the first of his household to have been turned into an animal ...
Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights is an exotic collection of stories that will grab your attention from the very first page. At the heart of the collection is Scheherazade, the bride of Schahriar ...
The Story of the Fisherman
Genies don’t always grant three wishes, as a fisherman discovers when his nets drag up a small yellow pot sealed with lead. Opening the seal frees a genie, but unlike the one disco ...
Älgkana
Det är 1950-tal i Bergslagen och jaktsäsong för traktens män. Med bössan över axeln ger de sig ut i de täta skogarna och hoppas på att få knäppa sig ett rådjur. Eller två. Älgkana ...
Det hoppande fenomenet Splunknig
"Det hoppande fenomenet Splunkning" är en novellsamling fylld med fantastiska berättelser av Sture Lönnerstrand. I "Ödesradion" får vi följa uppfinnarduon Jim Last och Jack Firsts ...
Sällskapet
Polis Kenneth Klintman och kriminalinspektör Lisa Norén är båda singlar och barnlösa, och därför faller det på deras lott att arbeta på julafton. Dagen börjar med ett dödsfall i en ...
The White People
'The White People' is a horror short story by Arthur Machen in which two men discuss the eternal battle between good and evil. Eventually one of them pulls out and opens a mysterio ...
A Dog's Tale
Why are they taking me away from my mother? Please someone stop them!Imagine the pain of being separated from your loving mother as a young child. This is exactly what the poor pup ...
Memoirs of a Madman
‘Memoirs of a Madman’ is a fascinating short following Poprishchin, a minor civil servant, as he descends into insanity. Unique in Golgol’s collection, it is the only story he wrot ...
The Marry Month of May
'The Marry Month of May' was originally published in 1910. The narrative focuses on a rich, elderly widower called Mr. Coulson. Come May, he becomes enamoured with his widowed hous ...
Love of Life
Set during the height of the Klondike gold rush this powerful short story follows two gold prospectors traversing the treacherous Canadian tundra. Supplies are low and their fates ...
The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
‘The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii’ is an inspired collection of six short stories set in a fascinating time in Hawaiian history. It is a heartfelt collection, as the s ...
Skugglegender
"Här är jag, här står jag. Mellan liv och livsstil, mellan Odenplan och Stureplan. Mellan hjärta och disco, mellan midnatt och gryning. Ja, det är väl så. Som violetta du och viole ...
A Fragment of Life
'A Fragment of Life' is a short story by Arthur Machen taking a close look at the life of a young couple who turn to spirituality for fulfillment and away from the unsatisfying ban ...
A Ghost Story & Other Short Stories
"All was still. All but my own heart--I could hear it beat. Presently the bedclothes began to slip away slowly toward the foot of the bed, as if some one were pulling them!" In Mar ...
Vilken del av Nödläge är det du inte fattar?
När Isabelle tittar in hos sin pappa, som bor på landet i Frankrike, ligger han på golvet och har svårt att prata. Men när ambulanspersonalen dyker upp kastar han ut dom med besked ...
Berättarna
Sex stycken främlingar, en kvinna, fyra män och ett barn, sitter inklämda i en busskur. Det är jul, snön yr och bussen kan inte ta sig fram. De sitter nära, nära, för att hålla vär ...
Eldfast skål
I denna samling berättelser tar författaren Barbro Lindqvist med oss på en resa genom tid och rum. I Näsduken sitter huvudpersonen på en parkering i Kairo och tänker tillbaka på si ...
Ur hästens mun
En sjuårig flicka dansar balett i morgonljuset för den inneboende främlingen i ett hus i Dublin. En kvinna tar ett hjärtskärande farväl av sin älskade häst i Egyptens öken. Och två ...
Tre saker familjer fruktar
Det är på BB som ångesten sätter in. Rädslan för något av det värsta som kan hända: att bli ifråntagen sitt barn. Men trots sin makes lugnade ord kan förstagångsmamman inte skaka a ...