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Mystery of the Haunted Castle – ebook
Krystyna Gerlach
The Haunted Castle portrays vicissitudes of a noble family inhabiting an ancient castle, struggling throughout long years with reverses of fortune, because of a cruel curse cast on the entire line. Visits of the vindictive ancestors’ spectres seeking redress for the old-time wrongs, the past unsettled conflicts, disclose grim secrets of the mansion’s former proprietors. Chance discovery of the 17th...Data dostępności:
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain – ebook
Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain - a novella by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness of himself...with his features,...Data dostępności:
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The Haunted and the Haunters – ebook
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a prolific Victorian novelist, member of Parliament, and Secretary of State for the colonies, wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. The protagonist of this book thinks that all stories related to ghosts, could be explained with a reasonable point of view. Now he has to solve the mystery of...Data dostępności:
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain – ebook
Charles Dickens
„The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain” is an 1848 ghost story by Charles Dickens. It is the final novella in Dickens’ series of five Christmas Books, the first and best known of which is „A Christmas Carol”. For Victorians these ghost stories began to be associated with Christmas time, and the end of the year. In this story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a teacher of chemistry...Data dostępności:
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Actions and Reactions – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
This is a scatter shot collection of short stories and poems that really have nothing to do with each other. Most of them come from Kipling’s early years, so some stories are good. Night Mail is the only science fiction; then there is a fantastic story about a haunted house, almost made up as a detective story, and in the less haunted genre, the couple moves to an old estate and finds that the bonds...Data dostępności:
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The Inquisitor – ebook
Hugh Walpole
Walpole wrote horror novels that tended to be more psychological than supernatural, with mysticism underlying thoughtfulness. The Inquisitor is a murder thriller set in a haunted village. This novel will leave a mark with horror lovers.Data dostępności:
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Pigeons From Hell – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Pigeons from Hell is a short story by Robert E. Howard written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard’s grandmother’s ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.Data dostępności:
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The Man from Sing Sing – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Cruelly betrayed by the testimony of Reuben Argels, his business partner and close friend, Moran Chambers is sentenced to 10 years in Sing Sing Prison. Haunted by the feeling that Chambers will exact revenge, Argels flees on the next boat to London, where he finds their third partner, the dour Scotchman Andrew Pulwitter, and Moran’s mistress, the lovely actress Ambouyna Kotinzi. Argels finds success...Data dostępności:
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The Isle of Pirate’s Doom – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The long low craft which rode off-shore had an unsavory look, and lying close in my covert, I was glad that I had not hailed her. Caution had prompted me to conceal myself and observe her crew before making my presence known, and now I thanked my guardian spirit; for these were troublous times and strange craft haunted the Caribees.Data dostępności:
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A Witch Shall Be Born – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Taramis, Queen of Khauran, awakened from a dream-haunted slumber to a silence that seemed more like the stillness of nighted catacombs than the normal quiet of a sleeping place. She lay staring into the darkness, wondering why the candles in their golden candelabra had gone out. A flecking of stars marked a gold-barred casement that lent no illumination to the interior of the chamber.Data dostępności:
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The Hills of the Dead – ebook
Robert E. Howard
In a world ruled by piracy, stalked by vampires, peopled by cities of the inhuman, he stood tall amid the terrors of the Dark Continent. Kane, a man of savage and unconquerable courage, strode deep into the jungles, forever slashing his diamond-edged rapier as evil guided the creatures of the night toward him. Wicked whispers of death touched him. Haunted horrors of the world beyond life reached for...Data dostępności:
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DeathSpank - poradnik do gry – ebook
Łukasz "Crash" Kendryna
Poradnik do gry DeathSpank zawiera szczegółowy opis przejścia wszystkich zadań w grze, zarówno tych głównych, jak i pobocznych. Każdy quest wzbogacony został zdjęciami i szczegółowymi mapkami. DeathSpank - poradnik do gry zawiera poszukiwane przez graczy tematy i lokacje jak m.in. Zadania początkowe (3) (Zadania) Zadania początkowe (2) (Zadania) Zadania początkowe (1) (Zadania) Haunted Forest (1)...Data dostępności:
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Three Ghost Stories – ebook
Charles Dickens
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. While the three ghosts that visited Ebenezer Scrooge was Charles Dickens’ most famous apparitions, his interest in the supernatural did not end there. „Three Ghost Stories” includes three different stories that are true Gothic classics and were sensational for...Data dostępności:
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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – ebook
DANIEL DEFOE
Having returned safely home, Robinson Crusoe marries and starts a family. Peace is not for Robinson, he hardly hangs out in England for several years: thoughts about the island are haunted him day and night. He even buys a farm, intends to engage in rural labor, to which he is so accustomed. After the death of his wife, nothing else keeps him in England, Robinson is overcome by the old wanderlust,...Data dostępności:
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The Prince of Peril – ebook
Otis Adelbert Kline
The second of the three Grandon of Venus novels. When the man who was Harry Thorne on Earth offered to swap bodies with a native of Venus, it was because he was bored with comfort and security, and craved excitement. And that was what he got – more than he would have bargained for – when he found that he had taken over the assassin-haunted role of a prince of a beleaguered throne in a land of ferocious...Data dostępności:
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The Mayor’s Wife – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. Miss Saunders, a discreet domestic spy of some kind, is hired by Mayor Packard to look after his unaccountably abstracted wife whilst he goes out of town for a fortnight. The lady is unhappy, and the reason for her grave unhappiness is more serious than you think. A detective...Data dostępności:
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The Honourable Algernon Knox, Detective – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is a very clever collection of linked stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim written in 1913. Algernon Knox, pretty young, dapper, seemingly silly, has failed at everything. Although wealthy, he fails when he stands for parliament. By chance he becomes involved in a blackmail against his uncle, who is a diplomat. Knox foils the plot, and a new career is born, the gentleman detective. In some ways, the...Data dostępności:
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The Black Abbot – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Several employees on a nobleman’s estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. However, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden. Who the Black Abbott is, what his purpose is – and how he is connected with the mystery of the treasure – these are the elements of the story. There’s a malevolent...Data dostępności:
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The Terror – ebook
Edgar Wallace
A dangerous gang of criminals is imprisoned after a daring robbery, although the ringleader who masterminded the crime disappears with the loot. Finally released after ten years behind bars, they are out for vengeance on the man who betrayed them, and the trail leads to a lonely house haunted by organ music and the specter of a hooded figure who prowls its dark corridors. But the police are on their...Data dostępności:
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The Room with the Tassels – ebook
Carolyn Wells
It had seemed an idyllic way for a group of wealthy New Yorkers to spend a summer month, researching the supernatural in a reputed haunted mansion in the depths of Vermont’s Green Mountains. That is until two of their number are mysteriously struck down at afternoon tea. Could the supernatural be at the heart of these deaths? Or did humans do the deed. This is the riddle that the famed detective Pennington...Data dostępności:
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